Ann Wilson Quotes

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Ann Wilson

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 19, 1950

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

Ann Wilson

What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.

Ann Wilson

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

Ann Wilson

When 'Quadrophenia' came out, I turned on to that because of the whole story with it, and there were just some really amazing songs on there. 'Love Reign' being the quintessential song on that record, I think. That was always one of the cornerstones of my temple, that song.

Ann Wilson

Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.

Ann Wilson

It's one thing to look at someone like Beyonce and Rihanna and to see how beloved and talented they are, and it's another thing to live inside it.

Ann Wilson

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

Ann Wilson

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Ann Wilson

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

Ann Wilson

When you become famous, people can have a powerful yet illusory idea of who you are. You want to live your life, but still, you don't want to let anyone down. I know Ed Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, all those guys felt it. They're smart, real, and all of a sudden, they're put on a pedestal.

Ann Wilson

I care a lot about Heart; I was there at the inception of Heart.

Ann Wilson

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

Ann Wilson

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

Ann Wilson

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Ann Wilson

Rock evolved out of rebellion, so when you turn on the Billboard Awards or something like the Grammys, and there's no rock on there, that's a good sign - because that means that rock is not welcome inside of a pop format.

Ann Wilson

Bands are always told, 'Nobody wants to hear your new stuff - just stick with the meat and potatoes - that's what people come for.' That's only half-true. I know if I went to see U2, I would be thrilled if they did 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,' but I'm equally as thrilled to hear their new stuff.

Ann Wilson

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

Ann Wilson

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

Ann Wilson

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

Ann Wilson

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

Ann Wilson