Ann Wilson Quotes

• You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set’s two hours long.

  Ann Wilson

• You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair… If you’re a woman it’s even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

  Ann Wilson

• We’re not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

  Ann Wilson

• People can’t just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

  Ann Wilson

• No way, because there’s love relationships, there’s s*x relationships and then there’s the band.

  Ann Wilson

• Led Zeppelin, you can’t find a better band to pay homage to.

  Ann Wilson

• It’s a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

  Ann Wilson

• It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the ’70s. There wasn’t a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the ’70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

  Ann Wilson

• I’ve got two sisters and they’re both married and they’re both much more settled into the way things are.

  Ann Wilson

• I’m a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

  Ann Wilson

• I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

  Ann Wilson

• I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

  Ann Wilson

• I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

  Ann Wilson

• I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

  Ann Wilson

• I don’t think we’ll ever use the same sound techniques.

  Ann Wilson

• I don’t think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.

  Ann Wilson

• I don’t think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

  Ann Wilson

• Heart has always been a rock band. It’s always been hard-rock.

  Ann Wilson

• Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

  Ann Wilson

• Back when we were first making records, you didn’t just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

  Ann Wilson

Ann Wilson (21)

Birth:	19th June, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Singer, Songwriter

About

Ann Dustin Wilson was born in San Diego, California. She is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, flute player, songwriter, and occasional guitar player of the hard rock band Heart. Regarded as one of the best female vocalists in rock music history, Wilson was listed as one of the "Top Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time" by Hit Parader magazine in 2006. Wilson has a dramatic coloratura mezzo-soprano vocal range.

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