Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Martie Maguire - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree

Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am.

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

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. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do.

I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out.