Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Murray - Page 2

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high school.

When I was growing up everybody I knew could sing. I had no choice. I had to sing.

I've always had a quiet career.

I find that touring keeps your voice in great shape.

You have to understand that I never thought I would have a career in music. That kind of thing didn't happen. Not for women, not in Canada, not in the 1960s. It was something I did for fun.

I'm a little more interested in smelling the roses, playing more golf and tennis and more cross-country skiiing and doing stuff with my kids.

The first hit record is easy compared to the second one. You've got to have two for momentum. If you have three, you're pretty much made. But one isn't enough.

I am a rabid Maple Leaf fan.

If I can still sing and still perform to my satisfaction, I don't mind touring.

There's no formula for choosing songs. I've beeen lucky over the years. You just hear it and you do it.

None of the boys from my town made it in the N.H.L.

'That's Not The Way It's Supposed To Be' was a good video, but it didn't do anything.

Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can picture the Maple Leafs playing the Canadiens. One or the other would always be on the CBC on Saturday night.

I worked all the time and when I say that, I mean I would work for three weeks, come home for a month, and work again, but it would have been nice to take long chunks of time off.

I'm the type of personality who just can't settle for less.

I learned all I have to do is sing the best music I know how and put on the best show I know how and just relax with it and people enjoy it.

What's the first thing I remember about the University of New Brunswick? That's easy. The year before I had gone to Mount St. Vincent in Halifax, which was an all girls' school. That didn't really work out for me. But at UNB, there were six or seven men for every woman, which suited me just fine.

Most artists over 40 or 50 don't get played on the radio. It's a young people's game. I was ready for that.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

As far as k. d. lang is concerned, she grew up devouring my music. She sent me a song when she was 8 years old, and she says I never wrote back.

I was going to become a teacher.

I had to sing 'Snowbird' a lot. But I never tired of it, ever.

My kids suffered because I wasn't home enough.

I've never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I've always been the boss.

That's the God's truth - I've forgotten that I was famous. I guess it's laughable.

There was a time when using TV to sell albums was frowned upon.

That worried me early on in my career - that I would change. If I went to New York or Los Angeles that I would become somebody I wouldn't like. That person that gets a big head and starts thinking they're more special than anyone else. I never wanted to be that person.

When you play in smaller places with a smaller symphony, sometimes there's a difference in quality. Sometimes it's murderous. Sometimes it's real torture. Other times, you get a wonderful surprise. But there's never a dull moment.

I used to sing all the time. But I couldn't imagine getting paid for it.

All I ever did was the songs I wanted to sing, in the way I wanted to sing them, and when people went crazy about them, it totally surprised me.

I was a real rock 'n' roll fan.

I didn't have a life. Basically, for 40 years it was my work and my nose was to the grindstone the whole time.

TV ads let people know you're still around. Not only do they sell albums, they give you a high profile. They let people know you're out there and working.

When my son was in his teens, he was a really fine drummer. He was asked in an interview if he would consider going into the business. And he said, 'Why would I ever go into the business that took my mother from me?'

Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.

A good singer can sing anything.

Nobody can have a career that lasts forever on radio.

I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

Retirement isn't what it used to be. It used to be you retired and you disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now you have social media. I keep in touch with all my fans. It's great.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.