“Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.” IfsWritingArtistSongGirlFemaleApplesIf I CouldFemale ArtistsAmazing Song Author:Jennifer Damiano
“I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.” WritingHeartSongBrokenFemaleRelateShoppingChicksWriting SongsHeart Broke Author:Nikka Costa
“I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.” IfsKnowsWritingSongRaceHonestFemaleBeing HonestIf I Could Author:Christian Kane
“[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.” ThinkingKnowsMenGivingPlayPurposeSongSidesComfortThousandBedMen And WomenFemaleArgumentMalesScriptureEnjoymentCompanionPeculiarAdamRaptureCordsMiltonAugustineThinking God Author:C. S. Lewis
“If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.” PeopleIfsNeedsSoulEarthTogetherMotherSongWaterFireAirFlowerFemaleRitualAdoreInvolving Author:Paulo Coelho
“Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write about computers or, there are car songs, cars are cool. But even in the car songs, it's, ah, usually gets down to me and my baby and my car.” WritingSongCarBabyComputerFemaleMalesBrotherhoodMy BabyMale Female Author:Jeff Barry
“I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up. There was so much exploration of gender at that time. Women were showing up with the range of ways of being female in the world and men were showing up with the range of being male in the world.” MenWorldWayDifferentSongIdentityBecomingComfortableFemaleMalesIncludingGenderRangeExplorationNurturingFacetsShowing Up Author:Dar Williams
“I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsStillsDifferentHappensSongBitsEmotionGoes OnFemaleHeavySingersRaysMetalsHeavy MetalDifferent EmotionsSam CookeFemale Singers Author:Tina Turner
“I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.” ThinkingWritingMeanSometimesSongFightingEasyDifficultBattleMusicianFemaleCriticismCriticsDrivenSongwriting Author:Marissa Nadler
“I think people always have - not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that a female pop artist can write all her songs. Even I do it sometimes, you see a really good female pop artist and you're like, 'I wonder if she writes her songs.' That's never really my first initial reaction to a male popstar.” PeopleThinkingWritingSometimesHelpingArtistSongWonderStruggleFemaleJournalistPop Art Author:Ellie Rowsell
“When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't always connect with them because all these people would constantly sing these party songs and I couldn't always relate to them. When I was younger it felt very alienating and I try my best to be the person that I would've needed, for other people.” PeopleTryingAgeArtistSongPartyFemale Author:Beatrice Miller
“The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art. She speaks to me. She was brutally honest in her work. At that time in fine art, you really didn't see many female artists expressing that. She was such a strong female presence, and I really look up to her. She had a lot of physical pain.” ArtPainArtistSufferingSongSpeakStrongHonestFemaleInspiredPainterLook UpSurrealFine ArtsPhysical PainStrong FemaleBrutally HonestFrida Author:Lindi Ortega
“I always come from a female perspective and a strong music base, trying to keep a positive slant on things. It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down, and I keep that message throughout. I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.” WritingTryingHeartImportantSongStrongBrokenPerspectiveFemaleHeart Broke Author:Nikka Costa
“You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.” MenSongWrittenPerspectiveFemaleRadio Author:Shirley Manson
“I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'” GivingYearsWellsCountryRememberSongRecordsFiveFemaleRadioLabelsRelateThirtyFive YearsHousewifeDemographicsFive Year OldsRecord Labels Author:Taylor Swift