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 Chuck Berry

John Lennon: "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry."

Bob Seger: "All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks."

Anthony Kiedis: "Chuck Berry is a musical scientist who discovered a cure for the blues."

Joan Jett: "The epitome of what it is to be a rock and roll guitar player, songwriter and singer."

Eric Burdon: "I learned more from Chuck Berry about America than I could have from the U.S. Information Service in London."

Joe Cocker: "Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis...you know in the 60's."

Keith Richards: "You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern."

Johnny Ramone: "I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I like Chuck Berry."

Ronnie Wood: "I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles."

Chuck D: "I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zepplins and Bostons and Peter Framptons.

Stevie Wonder: "There's only one true king of rock and roll. His name is Chuck Berry."

Joan Jett Quotes

"My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am."

"I love school. I was a great student."

"For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent."

"Before I settled on music. I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things."

"Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs."

"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."


"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do."

"I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of a bay guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable."

"Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things."

"I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records."