Martie Maguire Quotes

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Martie Maguire

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 12, 1969

I don't mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it's still alive and kicking.

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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.

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Emmylou Harris is just the biggest influence of mine musically, her and Dolly Parton.

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I think you first have to feel 100% comfortable with the person that you are with. I have written in sessions where I am just meeting the person for the first time and it is extremely difficult.

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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.

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We all know there are some major problems in the music industry. Every new act signs a bad deal.

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We don't feel part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more... So we now consider ourselves part of the big Rock 'n' Roll family.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.

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We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always songs for us.

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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.

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I neglected a lot of loving relationships to pursue this ultimate goal - success.

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Family comes first.

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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.

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We started to overthink things in the Dixie Chicks and do things we thought people wanted us to do.

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We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.

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I think there's a lot of things that need to be changed in the business.

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I wouldn't have been in the mind-set to do another 'Fly.'

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