Art Quote by Ann Powers

I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a…

— Ann Powers

MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of…

— Ann Powers

“Loving music had pushed all of us off the track- away from the normal pursuit of career, mate, and family, on an endless quest…

— Ann Powers

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been…

— Ann Powers

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and…

— Ann Powers

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's…

— Ann Powers

To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis…

— Ann Powers

“There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war.”

— Ann Powers

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to…

— Ann Powers

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

— Ann Powers

“Cindy came up with a glass world with a lone woman—Tori— having to navigate with bare feet. Karen came up with the idea of…

— Ann Powers