Shirley Manson Quotes

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Shirley Manson

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 26, 1966

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

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You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

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It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

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I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

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I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.

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I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

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We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

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I feel privileged, to be honest.

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I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

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I love pop music. Who doesn't?

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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

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I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

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I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation.

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In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream.

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I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

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I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.

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I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.

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Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

Shirley Manson

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

Shirley Manson