Top 66 Nancy Wilson Quotes

I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my ’63 Fender Telecaster.

Our very first group was called The Prunes.’ We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.

I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.

I feel like I’ve had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.

We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture – and in the world.

I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

I’ve always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.

We’ve come through on a very strange path, and it’s all somehow worked out.

You need to know how to play live. The ones who can do that are the ones you’ll see around for a long time.

It’s the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody’s influence, for sure.

When we’re home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

I’m a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.

We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

I always have dogs with me, even on the road. We call them port-o-pups.

Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.

We see people from 6 to 60 years old at the shows.

I just think it’s good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that’s not just songs.

I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It’s an old ’60-something, which I play at every show. That’s probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.

We don’t really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.

It is nice to be an American and to be able to have an opinion.

My highest score karaoke song is ‘Ben,’ by Michael Jackson.

We’re notorious for living up to our namesake. We’re all about love. That’s how we roll, even when it’s to a fault.

We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.

Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.

‘Say Hello’ was inspired by optimism.

We’re trying to elevate humanity and not preach to humanity in the way we approach our art. We’re always just trying to get a good party going.

I think if there’s a support system in place, and you’re acting adult-to-adult with a sense of unconditional love and forgiveness, only good things will come from any relationship between men and women.

I think it’s important to be kind of brutally honest without making anyone else feel bad in any way, if possible.

With ‘Brigade,’ we sort of decided to kind of revamp ourselves and put on the military garb and become more of a fighting unit, you know, like the title of the album, and sort of fight for it.

We always wanted to do a children’s book of some form or another.

I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.

Heart weren’t part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

One of the things I’ve heard musicians say that’s true is, ‘I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.’ I know we’re always going to make music. The traveling part – that is the most wear and tear on any human.

I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.

When you’re in your twenties, your brain hasn’t even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn’t spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn’t like, ‘Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.’ We took it in steps as much as possible.

We’ve always been more… weird compared to most bands, girls or no.

The ’80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.

The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who’ve been out as the only girl in a band. I’m not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would’ve been able to deal with that.

‘Barracuda’ is very fun to play because it’s like a galloping steed of a rock song.

A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like ‘Wait For an Answer’ and ‘Nada One’ would be fun, plus fan favorites like ‘Love Mistake’ and ‘Language of Love.’ Endless possibilities.

We were wild-eyed hippies from the late ’60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding ’60s – that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.

In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

When you’re 12, you have no gauge for what’s hip or not hip – or even who you are.

I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

‘Heartless’ is something Ann and I wrote together.

As a songwriter, simplicity – what not to do, what not to play – can be the hardest thing to achieve.

I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.

I think there were a couple really good songs on ‘Whirlygig.’

I like playing. Guitar… on a loud rock stage… with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

I tried to play ‘Barracuda’ on ‘Guitar Hero,’ and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it’s really counterintuitive.

We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.

There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud, with a guitar, in a tutu, and sing all by herself.

The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

We didn’t want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn’t hear that often.

Grace Slick was a total trip to work with. Lots of jokes and opinions. A strident individual and super talented!