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."

Great Quotes About Love

Bob Marley: "The most beautiful curve on a woman's body is her smile."

Aretha Franklin: "Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off."

Pat Benetar: "Love is very complicated. It is so complicated and it's so worth it."

Carlos Santana: "There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save."

Jim Morrison: "That's what real love amounts to; letting a person be what he really is."




Sting: "There's no secret to a successful marriage. I love my wife. More important than that, I really like her."

Ice T: "Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."

Madonna: "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."

Stevie Wonder: "Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go."

John Lennon: "It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love
."

Aretha Franklin Quotes

"Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off."

"I'm a big woman. I need big hair."

"And I was booked once to go on Ed Sullivan and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying."

"My faith always has been and always will be important to me."


"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."

"Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't it hurts even more."

"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."

"I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage."

"Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!"