Great Women Of Rock

Aretha Franklin: "I'm a big woman. I need big hair."

Tina Turner: "Physical strength in a woman...that's what I am."

Alanis Morissette: "What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

Liz Phair: "You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage."

Linda Ronstadt: "I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success."

Sinead O'Connor: "You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act."

Belinda Carlisle: "I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

Bonnie Raitt: "I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."

Chrissie Hynde: "I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress."

Annie Lennox: "I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free."

Joan Jett: "Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything."

Maria Muldaur: "I've been told 'Midnight At The Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the 70's."

Cher: "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him."

Stevie Nicks: "I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that."

Alanis Morissette Quotes

"I happened to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old."

"The ego is a fascinating monster."

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss."

"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true."

"The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing."



"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."

"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

"Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell."

"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it."