Age Quote by Victoria Williams

I always think that people think that women in music are always angry. I'm not angry. Rock 'n' roll music made by men is…

— Beth Ditto

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

— Sara Bareilles

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

— Shura

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

— Chico Hamilton

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

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative…

— Shirley Manson

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.

— John Varvatos

I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to…

— Charli XCX

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was…

— William Butler Yeats

I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.

— Jimmy Iovine

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

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

— Ann Powers