Nancy Wilson Quotes

Nancy Wilson

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 6, 1954

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.

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

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'Heartless' is something Ann and I wrote together.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Everyone makes mistakes.

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There have never been a lot of female guitarists out there, so most of my influences were male. Acoustically, I followed Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. Also, John Lennon and Paul McCartney - both incredible acoustic guitar players.

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

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

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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.

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We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.'

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

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Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.

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

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One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said, 'I have these lyrics! Let me read them to you!' They were the lyrics to 'Crazy on You,' and in my fever haze I said, 'Yeah! Those are really good!'

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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.

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