Martina McBride Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.
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I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.
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I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.
