Martie Maguire Quotes

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Martie Maguire

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 12, 1969

We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.

Martie Maguire

Fifteen-year-old LeAnn Rimes singing about commitment? You want to go, 'Yeah, right.'

Martie Maguire

You can't just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn't going to catch on.

Martie Maguire

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

We were the ones that from the beginning said that 'Wide Open Spaces' was a hit. 'This is a hit, people are going to relate to it.'

Martie Maguire

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

We want to embrace the younger crowds and get them to embrace instruments.

Martie Maguire

We are a little out of the box.

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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.

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We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

Martie Maguire

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

Martie Maguire

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

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

I want our fans to get their money's worth. If they are going to spend $40 to come to a show, it has to be good, from beginning to end. I like razzle-dazzle; we all do.

Martie Maguire

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.

Martie Maguire

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.

Martie Maguire

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

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We are bound to make mistakes.

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I don't really enjoy singing lead.

Martie Maguire

What I've learned and all of us have learned is: You can't force art, and there's no way you could force somebody to do something that they didn't want to do in this line of work.

Martie Maguire