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 Life

George Harrison: "If you don't know where you're going then any road will take you there."

Frank Zappa: "The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life."

Stevie Wonder: "You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

George Michael: "You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart."

Cyndi Lauper: "On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors."

Paul McCartney: "Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."



Bob Dylan: "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Diana Ross: "I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time."

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."

Tina Turner: "I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life."

John Lennon: "When I was five years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

Billy Joel: "If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."

Tina Turner Quotes

"I don't like to dwell on the past."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their own dreams."

"I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in, year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go."

"I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way."

"I am attracted to myths."

"I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream...to have class."

"I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life."

"Sometimes you've got to let everything go, purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything, whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

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

"I'm pleased with my life, with the journey."