Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Margo Price

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Margo Price.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Margo Price

Margo Rae Price is an American country singer-songwriter and producer based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Fader has called her "country's next star." Her debut solo album Midwest Farmer's Daughter was released on Third Man Records on March 25, 2016. The album was recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and was engineered by Matt Ross-Spang. The album was recorded in three days. On tour, she is backed by her band the Pricetags.

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.
No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.
Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing. — © Margo Price
Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.
I had the most frustrating thing happen when I was trying to find a label. I sent my album to this indie label, and they were like, 'We already have two girls on the label. I'm so sorry, we just can't take your project.'
Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.'
I'm from a really small town, and everybody there drives trucks. They're all farmers.
I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're probably gonna give up the music thing, right?' I was like, 'I'm not crippled. I'm just having a baby.'
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.
When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.
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.
I'm always the most country person in the room.
When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.
I'm not from the South, but I love country music. And country music is really big in the Midwest. Connie Smith came from Ohio. Jessi Colter was from Arizona.
I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.
I'm a massive 'Seinfeld' freak, and growing up, I always wanted to be Elaine - but I think everybody has a little bit of George in them, even if nobody wants to admit it.
My least favorite joke right now is Donald Trump.
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.
It's easy to be a people-pleaser, but that's not what makes me happy.
A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.
A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.
Everybody goes through something terrible if you live long enough.
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.
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!
You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you. — © Margo Price
You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.
I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.
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.
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.
Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.
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.
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.
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.
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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