Kathleen Hanna Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Powerful, Thinking

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

• I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Song, Writing

• Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Voice, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Country, Song, Writing

  "Kathleen Hanna is a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll". Interview with Jennifer Vineyard, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2013.

• I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and I was like, "I love this track. Oh my god. It's so upbeat. It's so positive. It would be so great for a tampon commercial." That commercial never came through, so then I just had it. I was like, "That would be great for a Hillary [Clinton] song." I think it's so funny that it could be a tampon commercial.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Thinking, Track

  Source: pitchfork.com

• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Violence, Males

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there's sort of the expectation that you're super-strong superwoman but you're just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Strong, Talking

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

• I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even finish the video. And that's really sad, because maybe I'd like that song. I think that we don't give stuff a chance to really sink in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Thinking, Giving

  "Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna, All Grown Up". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. January 13, 2014.

• I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Opportunity, Giving

  "A New York rapper and punk icon chat studio politics and how to fight today's battles". Interview with Ruth Saxelby, www.thefader.com. November 5, 2014.

• Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Faces, Jason

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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