Band Quote by Susanna Hoffs

The chemistry is everything in a band.

— Michael Anthony

I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much…

— Tobi Vail

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

— Lauren Mayberry

I guess we share some traits with different boy bands. But we are boys in a band.

— Calum Hood

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

— St. Vincent

Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades of collaborating…

— Michael Hersch

Sometimes metal music tends to be very masculine, but because our version of metal is a fusion of dance and heavy metal, all the…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

— Emily Robison

Gender is a spectrum.

— Yara Shahidi

My whole life had been bands that were men-centric - and that's a great thing, I know a lot about how to handle myself…

— Amanda Shires

I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl in the…

— Lauren Mayberry

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

— Gina Schock