Shania Twain, Dolly Parton, Melissa Etheridge after Oprah 2003

so we're on oxygen after the show was that not fun i know it's it's like it's like you guys said you go out into the audience like i came in this morning last night from uh from uh from where was i santa barbara and i was like jet lagged even my dogs were having trouble getting out of bed this morning i was like come on let's go and then i came in and then it's you and it was like changed my day having you guys on the show today and so glad you all showed up too that's a great audience that helps a lot helps a lot so here's your chance to ask something anything you want to ask hope it's good hope it's good yes you you've been chomping yes since i was five when i saw nine to five and i brought your nine to five record to school one day for recess and you have to imagine all girls and green plaid jumpers doing the limbo to nine to five so it's totally a dream to me well i'm glad you like that and i'm glad that that meant something to you that was my first movie nine to five it was you were fabulous and so i hear are you best friends with brad pitt did i read that i've been friends with brad pitt for a long time before he was brad pitt yeah yeah no i he i called him because he had done a movie with a good friend of mine back before thelma louise he was nobody and they told me they said he was a big fan of mine my first album they told me to call him and wish him happy birthday and from then we have been best friends and i've seen him you know just with such uh success and i see him definitely less now i see jennifer more than i see brad now he works a lot now we were talking uh in the earlier show about what it feels like to walk out there on the stage and you were saying it's a giving and giving what has been the largest audience that you performed before that caused you the greatest set of nerves i don't to me i don't get any more nervous with a big audience than i do with uh you don't have a smaller one no because they're they're just people and i do what i do and they're gonna do what they do but uh probably about the largest audience i've played too is probably about 150 000 but i didn't draw them myself that's like in big stadiums when we travel like overseas and stuff but i'm always just happy to get out there and you know the more the merrier the more the merrier yeah okay super bowl for you would that be it no it would be hyde park a party in the park always has somewhere around 100 130 000 yeah and again that's like a group multi-artist thing and it's just you know everybody comes so that's the biggest audience i've ever the bigger the audience does it feed you more or does it comes a point where the energy ends you you can only take so much i mean i played the second woodstock which was like 300 000 people and you can't see the end of them uh-huh and you end up you can't fill it i think as a performer you try to reach you know to and encompass and you can't so you end up kind of just playing to the first you know hundred thousand yeah yeah yeah also too you don't get as good of sound when you're having to play that many people you can't really hear yourself even with your life i don't wear the little eerie thing you don't no i have too much hair and too much other all this stuff's going on i can't stand that in my ear i feel like i'd be wearing hearing aids soon enough i never could get used to that so i'm still that's why these monitors are down here really but usually you but even still even if i had the ear thing i think it still you'd feel like you it wasn't as intimate i know i like a smaller audience i think most artists do yeah i prefer a smaller art and what's smaller for you well i mean actually i prefer a club setting yeah um really yeah because then i can talk to everybody that's there i mean my biggest problem every night is that in concert is that i can't communi i can't know everyone there and it almost bugs me as i just i can't know them enough and it goes by too fast and it's just it actually takes my energy because i'm trying to reach every i want to reach every single one of them and and you can but you spend your whole night trying to do that that's interesting you want to reach every single one of them because it's like i have to do that we come i think it's unique that the three of us all come from bar right club background so i was playing you know bud and phase to 10 people in lansing kansas when i was 12. and that's where we learned and we learned that if that drunk couple to keep them from fighting and making my night really bad i'm gonna i want to reach them and you learn that there's a there's a magic and when it happens when you get their attention like i want to do that every single night and you learn and that's that was our education and when you that's it that was my education because i mean i started doing that from the age of eight years old in clubs and that was my performing arts school yeah bars that's what i did you were at home weren't you out in the country singing yeah i started on radio and television back home and we did a lot but when i got to getting older i worked a lot with my uncles and we used to work a lot of bars but i was with you know with my folks but uh it was more like well worth a lot of elks club moose club we did a lot of that but uh and when i came first came to nashville and started having some records i did a lot of club work too but i don't like the drunk crowds as much as i just like a small crowd sometimes i don't think anybody likes a drunk crowd no no yeah because the drunk crowd that's a whole nother level they get better than you do they get brave and they want to tell you after 11 years after 11 you can get a little bit okay question yes sir blue shirt mr blue shirt dolly um hi my name is tom i uh you're my favorite celebrity my whole life and whenever people ask me why um there's so many things to tell them but there's a story that i remember seeing a long time ago on some late night show and julia roberts was there and she was talking about you and i want to see if you remember it or if it's true she said that when you guys were filming steel magnolias um there was all these female actresses and they were all sitting on this porch complaining about how long the process was taking and it was so hot out she looked across the yard and you were sitting on a tree swing singing and just happy as can be and so she walked over to you and she said why are you so happy when we're all complaining and she said you looked at her and you said julia when i was a little girl i all i dreamt about was being rich and famous and now that i am i'm not about to complain about it did that happen about it i ain't gonna visualize it i remember i did you guys for that show we're still still making noise yeah i came down there it was hot down there when it was it was right in the middle of the summer all that humidity down negative uh louisiana louisiana yeah and it was hot but i was more used to the humidity in defense of them than they were so they had come from l.a and all that and so but we were doing a winter scene that was that's what we had about we had on codes and stuff and it was like probably 100 degrees in the humidity so but anyhow that was true though and still is yeah yes ma'am yes ma'am hi i'm from shreveport louisiana and we love that movie and i just want to say that y'all are phenomenal women and y'all lift this country up y'all lift me personally up and everyone i know all your music and your show oprah thank you so much is there any way we can get a picture and a hug right i'm gonna let you do it since you had you were bold enough to ask come on up here right on the show i know everybody i'm sorry and don't stop because that was the one person no no let her get right there in the middle so they'll well you better look there and get this picture girl here we go here we go okay and it doesn't matter whoever asked now i'm not gonna do it okay again answer is going to be no i don't care how far you came how long you waited for tickets your mama's sick back at home okay yes ma'am in blue i'm going to this night twin concert on wednesday how excited are you about that because i know i i can't wait i'm leaving work early you know i'm like i gotta go i gotta concentrate well i'm excited about every night i'm glad you're coming do you know where you're sitting um like the 300 level offer you're a part of that group she's trying to be able to read the corner actually well my show is really interactive anyway and i'm i'm i'm out in the audience a lot so you just never know and and hopefully maybe i will actually see you out there so i look forward wasn't this even better this is this is so up close and personal this is so like the little guy was sitting behind me said that he'd seen you perform but he goes oh she's so much smaller i didn't get this close i go this is very cool and you are so tiny everybody's always shocked aren't you shocking how tiny dolly is she is teeny tiny what is your waist like scar little hair or size i don't know it depends on how tight i can get that belt and i get it how does that get it sometimes it's 17. it looks like it looks like 20. like like in the tv i think oh we should let's let's get a tape measure it's so teeny tiny it just looks a little because you know no it's little my feet are little cause nothing grows in the shade who inspired you as an up-and-coming actor or excuse me artist artists so many people i grew up in the midwest i grew up in kansas yay come on and we're right there in the middle and i used to have like one radio station but that radio station would play soul music would play led zeppelin would play dolly parton would play all the different mixes of music and i just i learned i learned to write and rock and roll from like bruce springsteen and the rolling stones and that sort of thing but i learned to sing through the country artists like dolly parton and tammy wynette that's the music i used to go play in the bars was country music so i learned to sing that way so that's you learn to sing and then you learn to rock yeah yeah she's a great writer too both of them are great singers and writers i love that i just have something to say to shania um i lost my father a couple years ago and just knowing what you've been through and your music really helped me get through it and i think about you all the time i have everyone who's used cds except the new one which i have now for free thank you very much thank you thank you tell you you're wonderful and just to see you sit there and talk so humbly about yourself it's just amazing thank you i appreciate question is for it hello first of all this question for dolly yeah um i'm looking forward to buying your new cd for god and country that comes out in november do you have any plans to tour for that right well i am probably going to tour some i i have a new for those that don't know what he's talking about i have a new patriotic album called forgotten country that's going to come out on veterans day in just a couple of weeks and oprah's trying to keep me dressed here and so we we probably will do some tour next year with that the dvd at walmart had some sound clips so it was really cool oh great yeah you got a dvd at walmart did you know that they have a new dvd with all sound clips from the new record on there it's pretty cool they're doing a big promotion through walmart and target and a lot of stores with the walmart amazing yeah i was in there i couldn't believe it okay yes ma'am back there yes ma'am to all the performers do you have a particular song that you've ever written or performed that is extra special to you or that means the most can i start yeah because because it's dolly song and um kota many colors has always been my absolute favorite it is the song i've been singing for years as a small child it was in my repertoire all those years and the other one is to daddy which is also a dolly song oh well that's great i have a lot of special guests okay you got one you got one it's interesting growing up being a performer i would uh sing all the top 40 and all the country songs but my favorite favorite songs i wouldn't sing because i didn't want to um i didn't want to get tired of them i didn't want to you know just i just wanted to keep them and so i didn't sing bruce springsteen growing up i didn't i didn't sing born to run until i played for the concert for new york and wow sang that for the first time so i kept that now my songs it's like asking what child you love the most you know because they're all different they're all pieces of my life so i don't have one of my own favorites do you dolly well go to many colors is my favorite of my own songs because it's more of a philosophy and it's really that way in life and i'm so glad you love that song too but my favorite favorite song of my own is a song that most people wouldn't know it's called if we never meet again this side of heaven it's an old gospel kind of kind of blue grassy song and it was my dad's favorite what what shania was saying earlier the hardest thing for i know many times must be not having your parents here to be a part of all of this that's the toughest part for me um but i try not to think about it too often but today it was hard most times like you know i can get through it pretty good because a lot of what people think like a lot of the accolades that you um achieve in your career which everyone thinks are the most important things to you like awards and great reviews and stuff like that really don't mean anything to me because a lot of people say well you don't you wish your mother was here or your parents were here and i said well these aren't really the moments that they're not really emotional they're they're things those are things um and numbers like you said are you know biggest selling this or whatever that that's just a it's a it's a number it's a chart but these moments are emotional for me and so today was especially and is especially difficult without my parents because they would have they would have up i mean obviously they would have died to be here but they really would have just um i probably would have had to say you can't come you cannot come because you're going to cry and you're going to make me all emotional because they know how much dolly means to you absolutely and what she what she meant to me as a child and all through my growing up and to our lives music see music is for our lives it's it's something we live with and that we live by it isn't just a thing it's not like a house it's not like having a car it's not even like having a child it's different it's more internal than that we can interpret a song the way we want to so i can write a song but you can interpret it any way you want and it's yours yeah it's personal it's yours to have and we give that and um i guess that's what we probably get back the most is the fact that other people make it their own and that means so much and that's what you did for me and that's what means so much and my parents would have they would have known that they would have known what i was feeling that's precious that is precious yes the closure after the show today dolly's gonna sing nine to five dolly's gonna sing nine to five we're gonna move out dolly's gonna sing nine to five and we are not gonna ask you to limbo we are not okay you're gonna see it okay we're gonna move okay i guess we're gonna introduce this next song coming up over gave me permission she said for me to take this and go right next to me is allison krauss out on the streets the traffic starts jumping with bugs like me it's enough to drive just dreams he'll never take away everybody they just use your mind and they never give you credit is come on is love to drive you crazy thank you ladies that's right you

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Length: 20min 7sec (1207 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 25 2011