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Everyone has their own opinion about what should be on the radio and I think there's room for all different people.
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I think our core fans have stayed true to us, and I want to thank them for staying with us.
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We were playing shows still when we wrote 'Phoebe' and 'Rock All Night.' We got to test those songs in a live setting, so it was nice recording them and knowing which ones really resonated with the crowd.
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So many times I've gone to hear bands and thought, 'Oh, I can't wait to be on that stage.'
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Sometimes when our manager calls me and says certain things, we go, 'Oh God, we've gotta do that?'
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I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.
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If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?
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Even though we were selling more records than a lot of pop acts, we were being treated like the redheaded stepchildren.
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I now recognize that having a great company behind you can actually impact your motivation to be more creative.
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I don't think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you're in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.
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As an artist, your only way to battle your label if you have a discrepancy is to go to court. I don't understand why you can't both agree if you have an accounting problem to have a third party to assess the situation.
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Our true fans won't go anywhere. Hopefully they will be open-minded towards how we are growing as musicians and as women.
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We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.
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I'd rather have a smaller 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.
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I neglected a lot of loving relationships to pursue this ultimate goal - success.
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When, no matter what you do, everybody's going to punch holes in it, then you just go and you do what you want. And that's the most freeing place to be.
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We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always songs for us.
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I'd love my kids to get into music, but I want them to understand the commitment involved. I don't want them to look on 'American Idol' as the way to become famous.
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Lilith Fair was a great experience for us the first time we played it. We were... not a new band, but a new band as far as mainstream kind of airplay or success.
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We don't feel part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more... So we now consider ourselves part of the big Rock 'n' Roll family.
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We all know there are some major problems in the music industry. Every new act signs a bad deal.
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I think you first have to feel 100% comfortable with the person that you are with. I have written in sessions where I am just meeting the person for the first time and it is extremely difficult.
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Emmylou Harris is just the biggest influence of mine musically, her and Dolly Parton.
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Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.
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I don't mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it's still alive and kicking.
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I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her.
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I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.
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We didn't like the idea of Dixie Chick action figures. I mean that's just the kiss of death for a group. How could a hip teenager enjoy the Dixie Chicks while their little sister is playing with a Martie doll in the other room?
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I want our fans to get their money's worth. If they are going to spend $40 to come to a show, it has to be good, from beginning to end. I like razzle-dazzle; we all do.
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I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.
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When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.
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We don't mind if people think we've come from nowhere. Because once they've become fans, they'll delve deeper in and will be surprised to find we've been around awhile and that we've had a lot of experience doing this.
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We want to embrace the younger crowds and get them to embrace instruments.
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We used to be called the Dixie Chickens. Then we played at a barbecue place, and they had a sign saying, 'Featured Tonight: The Dixie Chickens,' and everybody started ordering it for dinner! So we shortened it.
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We were the ones that from the beginning said that 'Wide Open Spaces' was a hit. 'This is a hit, people are going to relate to it.'
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