Female Musicians Quotes

• I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Past, Creative

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• I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

  Lana Del Rey

  Musician, Female, Looks

  "Lana Del Rey 'compelled' by Britney Spears" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.

  Princess Superstar

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.

  Amanda Palmer

  Hippie, Musician, Rolling

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• With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

  Lorde

  Thinking, People, Rock N Roll

  "Lorde, 16-Year-Old New Zealand Musician, Talks ‘Royals’ Video, Feminism And More" By Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

  Ani DiFranco

  Hate, Mind, Musician

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

  Weyes Blood

  Musician, Female, Twisted

  "An Older, Wiser Weyes Blood". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2014.

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• A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

  Weyes Blood

  Past, Musician, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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