HEART & SOUL
“I think I pretty much lived in a dream world of music and my room. I remember every day after school I would come home and sit in my room and play records and just travel into the music, and learn to play it on my guitar. That was my only concern. I tried to go out with boys and stuff and I always liked them and had crushes on them, but they were all such goons compared with the Beatles and the Stones and the Moody Blues in my imagination.”
HEART & SOUL
Sylvie Simmons
“I think I pretty much lived in a dream world of music and my room. I remember every day after school I would come home and sit in my room and play records and just travel into the music, and learn to play it on my guitar. That was my only concern. I tried to go out with boys and stuff and I always liked them and had crushes on them, but they were all such goons compared with the Beatles and the Stones and the Moody Blues in my imagination.” And Ann Wilson always had a big imagination, big and pure as the voice that brought us such Heart classics as “Crazy On You,” “Barracuda” and “Alone.”
“Nancy and I formed a group when I was about 14 and she was 10 years old—this little child with tiny hands and a big guitar. We always played for free with two other girls from school, for church functions and Youth Sundays at our parents’ church, or for schools when they had their PTA night. The thought of making money never crossed our minds. It was like, ‘We can play? You’ll let us play?’