Always Quote by Ann Powers

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a…

— Lorde

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to,…

— Lara St. John

I listened to a lot of female pop music growing up. I started to realize that there were women out there wanting to stay…

— Nina Nesbitt

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop,…

— Adam Lambert

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear…

— Shirley Manson

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

— Weyes Blood

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot…

— Missy Elliot

I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.

— Shura

Female artistes have to put themselves out there and take as much control of their own music as they can.

— Jonita Gandhi

A lot of females are openly discussing their experiences as women in the music industry.

— Charli XCX

We're girls and we're feminine so it naturally comes into the music but at the same time we intentionally put beauty and females and…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish…

— Mary Timony