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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
-
When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
-
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Country music is three chords and the truth.
-
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
-
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.
-
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Everybody is a teenage idol.
-
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
-
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.
-
The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
-
The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
-
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.
-
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.
-
And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
-
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
-
The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.
-
At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.
-
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.
