A biography for Nancy Wilsonhasn’t been written yet.
“One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.”
“I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.”
“I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.”
“There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.”
“We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.”
“We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it's fixing their lives. It's helping. It's healing. It's bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.”
“When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.”
“Music changes kids, and kids change the world.”
“I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.”
“I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.”
“I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!”
“The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.”
“I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!”
“There have never been a lot of female guitarists out there, so most of my influences were male. Acoustically, I followed Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. Also, John Lennon and Paul McCartney - both incredible acoustic guitar players.”
“There were not very many girls in rock n' roll together with men that had a heavy rock sound as well as a more acoustic sound like Heart.”
“Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.”
“You need to know how to play live. The ones who can do that are the ones you'll see around for a long time.”
“We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.”
“A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.”
“Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!”