Margo Price Quotes

Margo Price

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 15, 1983

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

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A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!

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Everybody goes through something terrible if you live long enough.

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I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.

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For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn't think anyone would want to do anything to harm me, but I learned through trial and error that that's not the case.

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I never thought it was fair that women couldn't travel freely because it was dangerous. I'd stay by myself on the North Carolina coast for a couple of weeks, with my dog and my gun, and my mom would be terrified. I told her, if I stay home, a lamp could fall on my head. You can't spend your whole life inside because you're scared.

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What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.

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I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in every single career out there.

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I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.

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You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.

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When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.

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If you live through the death of your child, you should be able to talk about it and let other people know it's OK to go on.

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From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

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I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.

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When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.

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I love Willie Nelson's 'Phases And Stages'; there's so many songs from The Band and Bob Dylan that have gotten me through hard times, like 'Tears Of Rage.' I love Karen Dalton's 'In My Own Time' and Skip James.

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I'm from a really small town, and everybody there drives trucks. They're all farmers.

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I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.

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My husband and I had the opportunity to write some stuff for other people. We both tried it. I think it lasted about two weeks, and we both felt ridiculous. It just didn't work for us.

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A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

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