Martina McBride Quotes
I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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Everybody is a teenage idol.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother
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Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
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I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
