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Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

— David Coverdale

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

— Ann Wilson

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

— Mary Timony

I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

— R. Kelly

I love rock women.

— Angel Haze

The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.

— Billy Paul

Women's music is underrepresented.

— Beth Anderson

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

— Holly Near

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

— Fred Hammond

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

— Bonnie Raitt

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

— Corin Tucker