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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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid.
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By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.
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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
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We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.
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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.
