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Tour Quotes
- "You know, two of us have been through childbirth; you can't hurt us!" ~Natalie Maines - "I don't know if you're booing because you're mad or because of what happened to us, Either way, you're here and we welcome you."~Natalie Maines - "We loved you before, we love you even more now." - "The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree"~Martie Maguire - ''I contemplated not wearing this skirt because I'd have to sit like this,'' she said, crossing her legs at the edge of the stage. ''Then I thought, hell, you've seen me naked."~Natalie Maines - "Just before I came out, a band member said I looked like a crack whore barbie. My role-model is S&M barbie.~Martie Maguire - "We have a lit'l baby on the way"-Martie "And we were wondering if it was going to be deaf or a musician?"-Nat - "This is martie going through her little parie on the house phase"-Nat "So Natalie how much wood can you chuck?"-Emily "I chuck alot of wood"-Nat Natalie Quotes
- "We have video footage of this lady at one of the shows protesting, holding her 2-year-old son. The woman commanded her son to shout along with an angry chant. And I was just like, that's it right there. That's the moment that it's taught. She just taught her 2-year-old how to hate. And that broke my heart." - "We try more to out shock each other. Our humor is more perverted and gross." - "I don't even know what's played on country radio, but when they tell me some titles, it cracks me up. Besides, where would we fit on the playlist between `Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' and `Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off'?" - "Yeah, I've said so much worse than that, I'm telling you."-Natalie after being asked if she would do it all again. - "It's about a girl whose been good for way too long and she goes out and does all her sinning in one night."~Nat on Sin-Wagon - ""It's weird -- you dream of winning the lottery and everything you'll do and buy, and then when you have the money, you don't need those things." - "The twang never left." - "The only responsibility I feel is to be myself and that's important for all young people. They shouldn't try and live up to the standards of TV and magazines or what friends are doing. Do what is right for you!" - "We can't parent the world. We don't want to be a role model, we'd rather be an inspiration." - "The sad thing is I love Texas so much, but I have to be 'on' in Texas. I have to look good and I gotta be nice the entire time. Everyone in Texas knows who we are. I don't know how Emily can live there." - "It's not a girl-power thing. If we are given this title, I think we just want to show young girls -- and young people period -- that you can make mistakes. That you don't have to crumble because you made a mistake. We want to be role models ... showing them that they can do whatever they want." - "The point where we felt we couldn't take it any more was when things finally started happening for us. So we didn't have to give up." -"And you know the spookiest thing? Martie and I have apartments across the street from eachother in New York, which we chose independently. So even if the band breaks up, we're stuck with eachother." - "The record company keep coming up with achievements- "the only female group containing two blondes and a brunette who've sold this many records, blah blah blah," We don't think like that." - "People think this'll scare us or shut us up, but it's going to do the opposite."~Natalie on "the inncident" - "Some people just don't get our humour in the Sates. But I think part of our success is the fact that we're real. We haven't tried to be politically incorrect. In fact I've always though of tradition country and the people in it, as false and hypocritical." - "I think being female has really helped us, because people have tended to underestimate us and just let us get on with things." - "We're just real. If there's any formula to it, it's that there is no formula.~From Aussie Interview, March 2003 - "Babies! That's the meaning of life." - "We're all sisters out here. As with any siblings, sometimes tempers can flare. But if one acts up, we're close enough to go, 'You're being a *****, you need to stop.' Just like sisters would." - "Thanks to hair and make-up, we can all be beautiful butterflies." - "But, everyone isn't perfect, and it's good for teens to know that." - "Martie wanted to join the Spice Girls, but when they told her she was too talented, she joined us." - "We walk around and people say, 'There's the Dixie Girls' and I turn around and say, 'Chicks.' - "I hated country. I wasn't gonna go to any Dixie Chicks show." ~Natalie - "Be White Trash with the rest of us!!!" ~Natalie on Martie getting chick feet tattoos - "We'd rather be the rock stars of country than the lame-asses of rock." - "You know, its funny...NONE of the songs we write together could EVER be played in church!" - "We want people to like us," says Natalie, "and I feel like they will. Because we put our hearts into the music we make." - "I loved watching them play," Natalie recalls. "Martie and Emily had always been the best part of Dixie Chicks. I had been waiting for my shot. I didn't know what I was going to do -- I was in college, but I'd changed my major four times." - "The other day we were talking about biodegradible diapers, 'cause that's how interesting our conversations get, and Emily gets this old lady lump in her throat and says, 'If they can put a man on the moon...'" "Okay, well that has NOTHING to do with this next song...". - "The only thing I knew for sure was that I wasn't going to wear those cowgirl clothes." - "Cause you know half of the people out there have ugly feet." - "Country music was so prevalent in our family that I was fortunate to be exposed to it at a very early age. I always knew this is what I wanted to do," says Natalie. "In grade school I remember thinking, 'I don't have to learn this because I'm going to be a singer!'" - "We got most in trouble when we're with the Kinleys--all that peroxide!" - "Looking back I see how brave Martie and Emily were to do this." - "Country music was so prevalent in our family that I was fortunate to be exposed to it at a very early age." - "It's so hard to look at yourself as this hot babe. And I'm going 'I am such a dork. I am so not sexy.' So, it's very strange to me." - "And when you think about it, it's the people who do something new that have all the longevity. Shania Twain was the first Shania Twain and anybody who's tried to follow isn't quite Shania Twain...So we definatly want to be the leader in this trio thing." - "We joke about the past and the clothes, but I really feel...it was very important for the band to go through all of that stuff. It was a lot of growth."- - "We're doing what we want to do, we're playing what we want to play...In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not." - "We're confident in our music and sound, but not in a cocky way. But if you're not confident in your music, then who else will be?"- - "Everyone can enjoy their celebrity for a little while." - "I was the loudest cheerleader. Unfortunately, I had the smallest pom-poms. Girls, I'm living proof you don't need boobs to get ahead in life." - "Someone said that with every video a little bit more of our personalities are coming out. Like a lot of times people think Emily is the nice shy one, and in this video you see that she's stranger than any of us!"- Natalie -"Well, before we get too serious about this, I just want to let Kenny Chesney know that Martie wants her jeans back after the show. Those were little. ... There's lots of people to thank." - Natalie @ CMT's Flameworthy Music Video Awards Martie Quotes
- "I'd rather have a small 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." - "We forget we might have influence and I think it is our responsibility to some extent to think about those things." - ""We felt like the damage was already done, the message we're getting is people are still angry about us. But we felt, 'What do we have to lose?' We feel so passionately about this particular election." -"Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I don't live in this country." - "I relate to Emily and Natalie now more than anyone else in my world, because we live, breathe, eat, sleep, and everything together. We haven't grown apart through this, we've totally grown together and nobody will ever understand the relationship that we have because they're not where we are." - "To me, the Dixie Chicks are two different groups; pre- and post-Natalie." - "The neat thing about Lilith is sittin' around with Sheryl Crow and talking about, 'yeah, don't you hate it when ...' Wow, someone has the same life as me!" - "We're doing a story for Lifetime [television] and they got ahold of our first appearance on Austin City Limits and some other old shows, when we had huge Dallas hair. It warmed my heart, we were so gaudy and bold. . . . We've never claimed to be the most fashion-conscious people." - "We do what we do best. I mean, we play the banjo and the fiddle and sing, and I just don't think we'll ever get too far away from really what we do essentially." - "I remember Natalie's been called into the office many times for saying things that I thought she'd never be in trouble for saying, early on. They were just no big deal. And we thought, 'Well, why should we be anything but ourselves?' - "You never know if its a Chick song" - "Our true fans won't go anywhere." - "If I heard Emily preaticing a fiddle tune, I would go in there and beat the heck out of her." - "Its all about yourself and your dream." - "My mom used to say that fiddle was magic and if I didn't play, the magic would disappear." - "I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out." - "I just think sucess provides so many luxuries. Right now we can take time off and not feel like we're losing our audience. We can afford attorney's fees when you have to sue the label!" - "The only thing I really stress about now is butts in seats," Martie laughs. - "Every record that does well now, through, allows us more freedom" - "We're one of those artists that is hands-onwith everything. While it creates more work, and we could stay out of decisions, we like to be in control of our own careers. If something fails, we want to be able to blame ourselves, not smoeone else. Its your dream, your passsion, your career." - "I don't think it is fair to try and convince your audience that you are bigger than life when you're not." - "I neglected a lot of loving relationships to pursue this ultimate goal" - "I probably get the most nervous of the three of us. I'm such a worrier. " - "We just drove down to San Antonio to see Emily give birth, and we listened to the Backstreet Boys the whole way down there. And I am an 'N Sync fan." - "In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them up and just noodling around." - "If you don't make fun of yourself, somebody is going to make fun of you for you." - "I'm excited about the Best New Artist category because of what it means for the country genre," said fiddle player Martie Seidel. "We want to represent country music in a category that is not typically represented by country artists. We hope we represent it well." - "Natalie got knocked up, Emily's knocked up now, so we have to take another break but we'll be back in April for our tour!!" - "Emily and I grew up with bluegrass, so we'll always sound country because we have the twang." - "When we first came out we were drawing a really young crowd which was scary cause they're the most fickle crowd." - "We were on our way to the street corner one day and the Little Feat song 'Dixie Chicken' came on the radio. [...] We decided to call ourselves Dixie Chicken, [...] then we shortened it to Chix. [...] We finally decided on Dixie Chicks." - "I have toe fungus" -"One of the best parts of a record deal is all the free meals you get taken to." - "One guy was there with his girlfriend and goes, 'Look, it's the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders!' I just wanted to shove my bow up his ass!" - We went from street corners to dance halls, from jeans and boots to tailor-made cowgirl getups wth rhinestones. Finding Natalie was the best thing that ever happend to Emily and me." - "But we grew to the point where we really wanted to music to speak for itself" - "If you think about the fact that Emily was sixteen and I was nineteen when the band started, and think how much you go through from sixteen to twenty-five, from the time you're nineteen to the time you're twenty-eight. Those are your growing years." - "We do like the push the envelope a little." - "That was a marketing tool for us. We knew it was a little different."-Martie on their cowgirl clothes - "It's that way of doing things that I think has gotten us where we are. It made us stick with it. It's an adventure." - "I think back to the time when we were musical wallpaper, calling the clubs we were booked in every thirty minutes to check on ticket sales." - "Neither of us wanted to be a lead singer; that would've scared us to death."-Martie talking about her and Emily - "We always thought that, if it all ended somehow tomorrow, I'd have a wonderful scrapbook to show my grandchildren. I'd be happy about what we've already accomplished." - "I love being able to play a straight-ahead country tunes and then rip into a bluegrass number, then a blues song. To me, that's what's fun about this group." - "Emily and I have wanted to do this since we first saw those gals pop out of the cornfields on Hee Haw. Emily almost tried out for the show when we first came to Nashville, but they didn't seem to need any 32A's" - "I'm...the oldest Chick, but I'm so emotional. Sometimes I get onstange and get all choked up--seriously!" - "When we first saw the first cut of it (the "Wide Open Spaces" video) I actually got tears in my eyes just watching it, because I really feel like it sums up where we've been and where we're going. I think that's what we're most proud of." - "At fanfair, they were askin us, well are you gonna change your clothes or the set and I was like no were gonna hit ém over the head with what we do best...ya know?" - “Music videos are instrumental in bringing our music to the fans, and we take making them very seriously,” Martie Maguire tells CMT. “There aren’t any videos we’ve done that we haven’t been completely involved in the creative process.” - "We also want to thank CMT for playing all of our videos and VH1 and hopefully MTV one day, if they're listening. .. Who did I forget, the fans. Thank you fans." Emily Quotes
- "We're kind of glad all this happened to us, because we've changed. We've always been able to connect with our fans on some level ... but as you get older, you want your work to be a little more meaningful. We want our music to mean something." - "Thank goodness nothing happened. But we, Martie and I, joke that we stayed in the round last tour so we were in this huge — a lot of real estate to cover onstage. So Martie and I just stayed as far away from Natalie as possible. Kidding, of course." - "The fact we have three is 10 times more beneficial than it is detrimental. We can bounce things off two other people that we really trust." - "The scariest part is not screwing up what you're doing right and sometimes you don't know what it is." -"If you call new country more pop, that's definitely not the direction we want to go in." - "It comes down to how we mix the album. There's no reverb on it, to speak of. And we really try to keep it earthy and real -- just acoustic instrument overlaying your traditional country studio instruments. I think that's what makes us sound like us." - "When it comes to music, it is amazing how much we agree on things. It's usually three thumbs up or three thumbs down." - "We colleceted $375 in our first hour, so we though, hmmm, perhaps we ought to go with this."~Emily on playing on street corners -"We're definatly going to do this on our own terms." -"I said, 'Charlie, our son better not be called Chuck.' And he goes, 'Don't worry — I never had any problem with anybody calling me Chuck twice." - "We don't want to be too cautious. Be yourself, that's our thing." -"Let me tell you, I fall asleep on planes with my mouth open, and it certainly doesn't look very attractive." - "They say I have the ugliest feet in the world, I don't care if they say it...I'm not gonna hide 'em" - "She was too cool for us at the time. She couldn't stay for dinner. She had big, important things to do." ~Emily on the pre-nat days - "People say they don't like country or bluegrass 'cause they say it's all 'ruhh ruhhhhhhh', but I love that!" - "I think the success we are having now says a lot about the people who were there when we were singing in barbecue joints," said an emotional Emily Erwin, banjo/dobro player for the group. "Those are the people that have stuck with us all these years and helped get us to this point." "It's been a long overnight success. But it's kind of a new beginning for us." - "I was on my way to the gym. It was incredible. I was screamin at cars, 'That's me on the radio!" -"Playing together is all I've ever known." - "We just wanted to have a weekly gig and be able to not have a day job." - "All of us care so much. Everybody in this band is s passionate about this music." - "We played orchestra in school.We were 'Orch Dorks'" - The real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. -"I just think about how many years I sat on my be watching the CMA awards, eating Cheetos and drinking a diet Coke, having my own little ballot sheet and seeing who would win. I had my whole party on my bed, watching the CMA Awards." -"We didn't have a name at all for a couple of weeks, and people started asking us who we were and wanting to hire us. We were going, 'Who are you? We don't know'" - "Texas likes to consider itself its own music industry." - "We dressed up in old Dale Evans cowgirl outfits and hats and boots. And then after a while, it seemed people were starting to come to shows to see what we were wearing as opposed to wht we were singing. So we changed our focus and concentrated on the music." -"We know we [the Erwin sisters] will always be playing music together, so we wanted to find someone who is just as determined and energetic as we are." -"I still feel like I'm a student of bluegrass." - "Natalie grew up listening to her father's steel guitar and West Texas country...but she kinda rebelled against country and listened to Bonnie Raitt, Indigo Girls, and James Taylor. So all those influences show through our music." - "Right now, it's a great time for us because there have been so many women who have opened the doors. The women are selling the albums right now, which is what is so cool. It's not just that the music is great, they're actually selling the product." - "It's fun to be out on the road together..." - "I need a list. When you're pregnant, you can't remember anything. I guess first and foremost we want to thank all the directors of our videos." - "You have to create your own destiny. We knew no one was going to work as hard on this as we were." -"It's almost like a drum solo in a rock concert. You always have to have an instrumental in the set or on an album." -"When your individual work is more represented, it makes you more proud and makes you want to work harder." -"I don't know where I'll be crashing. I think that was my line." -Emily Robison says that as she was preparing to announce the tour, her mother called to say, " 'Are you sure you want to alienate half your audience?' I said, Mom, why should we be alienating anybody? We have to forge ahead. I don't want to be the poster child for being intimidated to not say what you think." Various T.V. Quotes
- Prime Time Country Gary Chapman: "I gotta tell ya, I love a girl with a banjo!" Emily: "Yeah, isn't that sexy." Gary: "You girls could get folks into trouble." Natalie: "We get most in trouble when we're with the Kinleys....all that peroxide." - Live with Regis and Kathie Lee "We played orchestra in school. We were 'Ork Dorks'. And on weekends I was a banjo nerd."- Emily Regis: "Who's married here?" Natalie and Martie: "We're married....Not to each other!!" Regis: "Are these guys (husbands) content to live with the Dixie Chicks on the road as much as you have to be?" Emily: "It takes a special breed to marry a Dixie Chick, that's for sure." Kathie Lee: "Now what do the guys (husbands) do?" Martie: "My guy sells drugs....pharmaceuticals that is!" - CMT's Hit Trip Jeff: "So did you get on a plane right then and leave (to join the band)." Natalie: "Well...4 days later I went and checked out of college." Emily: "'Checked out'. Like it was a hotel!" Heather: "What do you guys look for in a man?" Natalie: "Well, we all say personality first." Jeff: "Yeah, that's what they ALL say!" Natalie: "Well, I have to agree though. It's ALL gotta be there! They can't be, like, dogs and be really funny!!" Jeff: "Hey, I heard that you're single...Well, uh...ya know I'm single too." Emily: "Yeah, they told me that. That's great. Well, I'll see ya around." - Chicks Music Television and CMT Showcase with the Chicks "Is there any water around here? And then my husband goes Emily I'm not your road manager, I'm your husband"- Emily "And my husband was laughing at me cause I could not for the life of me figure out how to work the dishwasher!"-Martie Group Quotes
- Historically, country music's always attracted an older conservative audience. They don't like it when someone comes along and rocks the boat. It's still the good ol' boy network in Nashville. But do you know what the biggest industry is there, apart from music?~Emily Porn! There's more strip clubs and sex shops than anywhere else. At the same time it's the world centre of production of Bibles. It's a pretty phoney town."~Natalie - Three chicks go into a bar. Seriously. "We go to trivia night," Dixie Chick Natalie Maines explains "They call out questions, and every table is a team." "Don't say our team name," blurts a mortified Maguire, sipping a glass of red wine in an Austin restaurant. "We're going to lose fans." "The name of our team is Kenny Chesney Stuffs His Pants with a Pimento Cheese Sandwich" "Isn't that a great trivia name? They say it every single round! They'll go, 'Kenny Chesney Stuffs His Pants with a Pimento Cheese Sandwich, 23 points!' And everyone laughs." (Chesney, for the record, takes the ribbing in stride. "They said what?" he asks, cracking up at his former tour mates' gag. " 'Least they're lookin'.") - But don't cross Maines. "Are you trying to look up my skirt?" she scolded a hapless male down front. "There is nothing up there for you." Girl power, indeed. (by Keith Spera) - If reincarnation is possible, I hope I DON'T come back as... Martie: a banjo Emily: Martie Natalie: our manager - "[We were] growing our musical boobies you could say."-The Chicks in Chick Chat - "You glitz it up a lot more. A little bit of twinkly is nice. You've got to look bigger, you have to be a little brigher."-Laura Lynch - "People in Nashville tell us to stay in Texas. Everyone there wants to be from here. Actually, it's quite cool-Laura - "When we all get together in our precious blue van, we sing hours on end."-Laura - "We don't really want to conform to formula country music. We want to do what we feel in our hearts. Whether that will translate to superstardom, I kind of doubt that."-Robin - "We're funny, we're little, and we're on page 130!"-The Dixie Chicks on their inclusion in The Cowgirl Companion - "We thought 'Wide Open Spaces' written by West Texas songstress Susan Gibson, would be the title cut and 'cause it's about going out there and chasing a dream."-The Dixie Chicks -"Heck, when you're the 'Possum,' you can call us anything you want...just don't call us late for supper."-The Dixie Chicks on George Jones calling them "Dixie Chickens" |