Martie Maguire Quotes

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Martie Maguire

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 12, 1969

Our true fans won't go anywhere. Hopefully they will be open-minded towards how we are growing as musicians and as women.

Martie Maguire

We're not going to change the world or the music business.

Martie Maguire

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

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

Martie Maguire

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

I now recognize that having a great company behind you can actually impact your motivation to be more creative.

Martie Maguire

Even though we were selling more records than a lot of pop acts, we were being treated like the redheaded stepchildren.

Martie Maguire

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

I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.

Martie Maguire

I connect better with music when I see the people singing it.

Martie Maguire

Sometimes when our manager calls me and says certain things, we go, 'Oh God, we've gotta do that?'

Martie Maguire

So many times I've gone to hear bands and thought, 'Oh, I can't wait to be on that stage.'

Martie Maguire

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.

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I think our core fans have stayed true to us, and I want to thank them for staying with us.

Martie Maguire

Everyone has their own opinion about what should be on the radio and I think there's room for all different people.

Martie Maguire

Nothing is as important as standing up for what you believe in.

Martie Maguire