Nancy Wilson Quotes

Nancy Wilson

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 6, 1954

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

Nancy Wilson

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I play a lot of classical music around the house.

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

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

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Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

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I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.

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I'll work my butt off to do something well.

Nancy Wilson

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

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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.

Nancy Wilson

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

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