Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Maddie Marlow
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Maddie Marlow.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it told me to slide my sugar shaker over.' If any guy spoke to us the way those country songs spoke to women, it would not be good for that guy. I would probably punch him in the face.
We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville.
Some people forget that when you are collaborating, you aren't always right. So you have to be open-minded and have to remember there are two minds creating. So you have to respect the other person.
It's our job as followers of Christ to love our brothers and sisters even if they are different than us!
We grew up fishing, and we take it seriously.
I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.
I have a really weird thing with my dreams. I've had vivid dreams in the past that actually came true days after the dream.
It's such a fun experience getting to kind of create something from nothing with your best friend.
Dann Huff is amazing and so patient.
We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
I'm not going to allow my trials to defeat me, I'm going to let them build me up and learn from them and take as much wisdom as I can from each trial.
At 15 we were going back and forth to Nashville every weekend while we were still going to school.
Tae loves color, and I'm more into jeans. We like to think we're bohemian chic.
We are serious about our fishing, and that's why, when we take guys fishing, and they aren't being serious about it, we kick them to the curb.
The biggest lesson I learned in 2017 is do the best with what you have with where you are.
The fact that we're young females and our voices are being heard loud and clear is really, really special to both of us.
We poured our whole hearts into 'Start Here,' and I cannot wait to just show our fans the whole Maddie & Tae spiel.
How many days did I look out the window and want to run home because the world was so big and things were going wrong? But I also knew if I ran away, my dream would never happen.
We just feel so blessed, like God picked us two goobers to do this crazy thing and speak up for people that don't have a voice and give them something to hang onto. If we've done that for one person, I think we've done our job.
We hadn't met anyone else as ambitious as us. We immediately recognized each other's drive.
You have this fairy tale of 'life on your own.' It's so awesome. Until the apartment floods, or something happens, and your go-to people aren't there.
I grew up fishing, but I'm actually a bigger hunter than I am a fisher.
'Conservative' is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way to put it is, if there's a little girl in the audience, and she's looking at us, I want her parents to feel comfortable with her admiring us and looking up to us.
I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.
We have more to offer than just looking good.
Country fans can sniff out phony from a mile away.
I truly look in the mirror and love who I am today because of the pain that I had to go through to get here.
When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.
We hope, for anyone else trying to make a dream come true, they can find the faith to keep going in 'Fly' when they're about to give up.
Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.
Being bold and standing our ground is important, and making sure you don't allow people to run all over you.
We wrote every single song, and they're all true stories. Some people don't believe us, but they are.
Music is obviously our No. 1, always. But it's so fun to venture out to another creative outlet.
I will say, as southern women, there is a southern way of life that inspires a lot of music. I can see why that's a common thread through music, but the best part about country is it's about real life. It's not about this glamorous Lamborghini, walking around with gold necklaces, all that stuff.
I love American Eagle's jeans; they fit me just right.
We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she's coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.
Every song means something. Every song tells one of our stories, or a story together.
What's an opening night without forgetting some lyrics?
We have people come up to us all the time in meet-and-greets saying, 'Thank you so much for writing that, because I went through a similar situation, and that song lifted my spirit and gave me the confidence that I needed.'
We're acoustically driven, and there's no doubt we're country.
Dreams only happen if you go out to get them.
There's an honesty in our lyrics, and that will never change.
Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
To tie in the whole Christianity aspect, as Christians, we're taught our whole lives to love people no matter what, and in country music, that's okay; that's something that's accepted. That's why it's a great genre for us, because we can speak about all kinds of different things.
When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like 'Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'
Being a young woman, fashion is super important, and it's just fun.
It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
'Fly' really is the polar opposite of 'Girl in a Country Song.'
I've gotten a lot better with accepting change, because I used to want a consistent schedule.
With our music, we don't want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the different influences that we have.
We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's any karma for that.
It's a spiritual experience on stage almost every night. Especially, with the song 'Fly.' We were so inspired to write this song and just to hear people's stories and how it's impacted them.
We've always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn't necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.
There's a point where you're going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's taking interest.
If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can't stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
The center stone on my ring is the diamond from my mom's original engagement ring. My parents have been married 25 years! My dad bought her a new ring a while back, so she kept her original diamond to pass down to me or my sister someday. It is so special having an heirloom ring because I will get to pass it down one day, too.
We wrote 'Fly' in such a vulnerable place where we weren't sure if we had what it took or we would ever make it. Now to have that song on country radio and have our fans singing it back is just wild, because we remember that exact moment, feeling that way.
Would Jesus be bashing people for thinking differently than you even if you think it's wrong? Nope. He would be loving on everyone.
'Girl In A Country Song' is basically a song about what it's like to be the girl in modern day country songs and how hard it is to be this perfect Barbie doll girl that we are portrayed as.
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