You know, I’ve always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird. Gina Schock Read Quote
The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they’re 18 ’till they’re 50 years old and when they get wrinkles, they’re ‘character lines.’ But when girls get ’em, they’re wrinkles! Gina Schock Read Quote
Mick Jagger visited us backstage and told us how much he liked our show. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts came back too, and they wanted to get their pictures taken with us. Bill Wyman knew our chart positions. I couldn’t believe it. Gina Schock Read Quote
When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly. Gina Schock Read Quote
I just don’t like to be called a ‘woman’ or a ‘lady’ because I don’t feel like either a woman or a lady. I feel like a musician. Gina Schock Read Quote
We made some mistakes, but we made some great strides too. Certainly we changed the way that record labels looked at women. Gina Schock Read Quote
We showed record companies that they shouldn’t be scared just because it’s an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys. Gina Schock Read Quote
Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn’t have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind. Gina Schock Read Quote
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 Read Quote