Ann Wilson Quotes

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Ann Wilson

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 19, 1950

Some time ago, I learned how to say, 'What's the worst thing that could happen up there?' I could mess up some words, I could sing flat... I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?

Ann Wilson

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.

Ann Wilson

Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.

Ann Wilson

Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.

Ann Wilson

I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.

Ann Wilson

The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.

Ann Wilson

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Ann Wilson

I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.

Ann Wilson

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

Ann Wilson

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

Ann Wilson

You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.

Ann Wilson

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

Ann Wilson

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Ann Wilson

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

Ann Wilson

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

Ann Wilson

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

Ann Wilson

I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.

Ann Wilson

Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.

Ann Wilson

I really feel that a concert is a place where you can bring up topics, and you can actually discuss them and feel them and have a great time.

Ann Wilson

People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.

Ann Wilson