Indie music Quote by Phoebe Bridgers

The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two…

— Bibi Bourelly

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put…

— Julien Baker

There's always been extreme misogyny in the music industry.

— Alaska

You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.

— Sevyn Streeter

It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women…

— Soccer Mommy

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

— Grace Potter

When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I…

— Cardi B

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still…

— Alessia Cara

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be…

— Lykke Li

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

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

— Jonita Gandhi

In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.

— Charli XCX