Quotes by Martie Maguire - Page 2

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Feedback
Unknown
Time Game People
Time Game Bad
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At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?
Martie Maguire / Musician
Surprising
Grammys
Instrument
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I love the tone of old, non-amplified, real acoustic fiddles, and Wood Violins are the closest thing I have found to that sound. They play beautifully!
Martie Maguire / Musician
Closest
Tone
Acoustic
Beautifully
Closest Thing
Wood
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When, no matter what you do, everybody's going to punch holes in it, then you just go and you do what you want. And that's the most freeing place to be.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Holes
Freeing
Punch
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When I look back at some of the Chicks stuff, it's the early stuff we did where we kind of giggle and go, 'You know what? Those were the good old days.'
Martie Maguire / Musician
Chicks
Giggle
Good Old Days
Old Days
Good Good Old Days Look
Good Look Back
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Lilith Fair was a great experience for us the first time we played it. We were... not a new band, but a new band as far as mainstream kind of airplay or success.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Great Experience
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If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?
Martie Maguire / Musician
Consistently
Check
Stand Up
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I'd love my kids to get into music, but I want them to understand the commitment involved. I don't want them to look on 'American Idol' as the way to become famous.
Martie Maguire / Musician
American Idol
Love Music Famous
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I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we're continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Court
Emily
Function
Continually
Hound
Idling
Yard
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I don't think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you're in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Nashville
Trusted
Everybody Else
Wishing
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Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Grades
Music Me School
Aside
Escape
Huge Part
Little Girl
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I really have aproblem with the fact that insurance companies don't see infertility as a medical condition requiring coverage. I do want there to be some pressure on the insurance companies.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Coverage
Insurance Companies
Condition
Insurance
Requiring
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We were playing shows still when we wrote 'Phoebe' and 'Rock All Night.' We got to test those songs in a live setting, so it was nice recording them and knowing which ones really resonated with the crowd.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Setting
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We used to be called the Dixie Chickens. Then we played at a barbecue place, and they had a sign saying, 'Featured Tonight: The Dixie Chickens,' and everybody started ordering it for dinner! So we shortened it.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Barbecue
Chickens
Dixie
Tonight
Featured
Ordering
Shortened
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I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Cool People
Smaller
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We spent three years of active trying before we went to IVF. First I went on Clomid. Then I had some dye tests and found I had a collapsed tube, so I had laparoscopic surgery; the tube wasn't blocked, just spasming.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Blocked
Surgery
Collapsed
Dye
Tube
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In the beginning, if you look at those early label albums of the Chicks, we didn't write all that much. We had an A&R person and they were getting songs from publishers, listening to hours and hours of cassette tapes.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Chicks
Publishers
Cassette
Hours And Hours
In The Beginning
Label
Tapes
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We don't mind if people think we've come from nowhere. Because once they've become fans, they'll delve deeper in and will be surprised to find we've been around awhile and that we've had a lot of experience doing this.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Deeper
Awhile
Nowhere
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As an artist, your only way to battle your label if you have a discrepancy is to go to court. I don't understand why you can't both agree if you have an accounting problem to have a third party to assess the situation.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Accounting
Assess
Discrepancy
Label
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I am a really passive person to begin with so I have written a lot of pretty crappy songs with strangers because I let it go in a direction that I didn't feel it should have and I didn't know them well enough to speak up.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Passive
Crappy
Strangers
Well Enough
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We didn't like the idea of Dixie Chick action figures. I mean that's just the kiss of death for a group. How could a hip teenager enjoy the Dixie Chicks while their little sister is playing with a Martie doll in the other room?
Martie Maguire / Musician
Sister
Chicks
Dixie
Figures
Chick
Doll
Hip
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It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Exhausted
Meant To Be
Options
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Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Home
Awards
Sorry
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I couldn't imagine that my career could have contributed to the demise of my marriage, but I do think neither of us realized that when you spend 60 to 70 days a year face-to-face, no marriage is going to survive. No relationship is going to survive.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Demise
Face To Face
To Survive
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My closet CD that I don't admit that I really listen to is Celine Dion. My husband's sister passed away in a car accident, and she was a huge Celine Dion fan. 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' was her favorite song, so that's kind of my guilty pleasure.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Car Accident
Guilty
Guilty Pleasure
Accident
Car Me Song
Cd
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While we were promoting 'Wide Open Spaces,' we set aside time to write. We went on several writing retreats where nobody could get hold of us. It was the only way we could take a step back and reflect and write and be living a semi-normal life for a while.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Open Spaces
Wide
Life Time Step
Aside
Reflect
Retreats
Spaces
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I'm amazed when I hear my daughters with their friends. They'll just talk openly about, 'Yeah, he used to be a girl and now he's a boy.' It gives me a lot of hope... It's so matters of fact. It's like they're saying blue and yellow make green. I love that.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Amazed
Yellow
Openly
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You know, I think it's something I want to teach my children, to ask questions and not be afraid to disagree with people in power. Always question, scrutinize everything they do, because they are leading the country, and it's important to me. That is patriotic.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Disagree
Patriotic
Scrutinize
Power Always Me
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I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Bluegrass
Festivals
Performers
Showmanship
Adds
Picking
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I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Fans
Limits
People
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I would never go on 'Dancing With the Stars,' because I'm not the greatest dancer in the world. But when I watch 'The Apprentice' sometimes I'm like, 'I could do that task.' The only reason I would not do that is that I could never call people for money and on that show you have to be willing to call people for money.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Apprentice
Dancing With The Stars
Task
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I play a little acoustic bass and a little guitar. In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them up and just noodling around. I pick up my husband's tin whistle sometimes. He's really proficient, but it's about the second most annoying instrument - after the banjo - if you don't know how to play it.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Annoying
Bass
Tin
Acoustic
Banjo
Whistle
Instrument
Picking
Proficient
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We have an older sister who gets pregnant easily. So Emily and I think there may be an environmental cause for our problems. Neither of us were very old when we started trying. But we've lived very parallel lives. We've been in a band together since I was 12 and she was 10. We can't help but wonder, did we stay in a hotel near a power plant?
Martie Maguire / Musician
Environmental
Emily
Hotel
Older Sister
Plant
Pregnant
Parallel
Power Plant
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