Words matter. These are the best Maddie Marlow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We hope, for anyone else trying to make a dream come true, they can find the faith to keep going in ‘Fly’ when they’re about to give up.
Dreams only happen if you go out to get them.
I love country music because it’s honest – and I’m a terrible liar.
When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I’m like ‘Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He’s supposed to be, like, my friend. I’m supposed to be cool.’
With our music, we don’t want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the different influences that we have.
If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can’t stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
It’s a spiritual experience on stage almost every night. Especially, with the song ‘Fly.’ We were so inspired to write this song and just to hear people’s stories and how it’s impacted them.
The fact that we’re young females and our voices are being heard loud and clear is really, really special to both of us.
I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.
Every song means something. Every song tells one of our stories, or a story together.
At 15 we were going back and forth to Nashville every weekend while we were still going to school.
I truly look in the mirror and love who I am today because of the pain that I had to go through to get here.
There are those songs that hit you in the gut – when you’re the one performing it and you see the effect it has on people, there’s something so powerful in that.
We poured our whole hearts into ‘Start Here,’ and I cannot wait to just show our fans the whole Maddie & Tae spiel.
For some reason, the word ‘feminist’ freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out – not just the singles.
Tae loves color, and I’m more into jeans. We like to think we’re bohemian chic.
We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don’t have a voice. That’s what our music does.
I think, us ladies, we are complicated creatures.
We played ‘Girl in a Country Song’ in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
Dann Huff is amazing and so patient.
We are serious about our fishing, and that’s why, when we take guys fishing, and they aren’t being serious about it, we kick them to the curb.
When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.
You have this fairy tale of ‘life on your own.’ It’s so awesome. Until the apartment floods, or something happens, and your go-to people aren’t there.
The biggest lesson I learned in 2017 is do the best with what you have with where you are.
What’s an opening night without forgetting some lyrics?
We’ve always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn’t necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.
I grew up fishing, but I’m actually a bigger hunter than I am a fisher.
How many days did I look out the window and want to run home because the world was so big and things were going wrong? But I also knew if I ran away, my dream would never happen.
There’s a point where you’re going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there’s no results or when no one’s taking interest.
We’ve been blessed with an incredible team behind us – Scott Borchetta and everybody at Dot Records. They’re not afraid of taking chances, and we aren’t either, so it is the dream team we’ve got behind us.
It’s such a fun experience getting to kind of create something from nothing with your best friend.
It’s our job as followers of Christ to love our brothers and sisters even if they are different than us!
I’ve gotten a lot better with accepting change, because I used to want a consistent schedule.
Being a young woman, fashion is super important, and it’s just fun.
We wrote every single song, and they’re all true stories. Some people don’t believe us, but they are.
Being a woman in country is really empowering. It’s a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you’re 100% behind your message and who you are.
Music is obviously our No. 1, always. But it’s so fun to venture out to another creative outlet.
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, ‘Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it told me to slide my sugar shaker over.’ If any guy spoke to us the way those country songs spoke to women, it would not be good for that guy. I would probably punch him in the face.
We are not going to release an album that we don’t believe in.
We have made such great friends at country radio. I think they love the honesty of ‘Fly’ and how raw and vulnerable it is.
We just feel so blessed, like God picked us two goobers to do this crazy thing and speak up for people that don’t have a voice and give them something to hang onto. If we’ve done that for one person, I think we’ve done our job.
With everything that Tae and I do, we want to make sure it’s true and honest to who we are as people and artists.
There’s an honesty in our lyrics, and that will never change.
Would Jesus be bashing people for thinking differently than you even if you think it’s wrong? Nope. He would be loving on everyone.
We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she’s coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.
Country fans can sniff out phony from a mile away.
To tie in the whole Christianity aspect, as Christians, we’re taught our whole lives to love people no matter what, and in country music, that’s okay; that’s something that’s accepted. That’s why it’s a great genre for us, because we can speak about all kinds of different things.
I will say, as southern women, there is a southern way of life that inspires a lot of music. I can see why that’s a common thread through music, but the best part about country is it’s about real life. It’s not about this glamorous Lamborghini, walking around with gold necklaces, all that stuff.
We’re not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we’re doing is writing music that’s our truth. I don’t think there’s any karma for that.
