Janet Weiss Quotes

#1. One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#2. You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.

Janet Weiss

#3. I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.

Janet Weiss

#4. Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

Janet Weiss

#5. You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.

Janet Weiss

#6. I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

Claire Denis

#7. Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.

Janet Weiss

#8. A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

Janet Weiss

#9. Sometimes it's nice to be sick, to give up trying to function, to crawl into bed and be cared for a little.

Laurel Snyder

#10. With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.

Janet Weiss

#11. This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play ... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.

Janet Weiss

#12. She's one of those who goes all gooey over small furry animals. Not that it stops her eating them

Simon Bestwick

#13. No house is ugly with a good view!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.

Janet Weiss

#15. You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"

Sara Bareilles

#17. Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Janet Weiss

#18. I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Janet Weiss