Top 145 Quotes & Sayings by Shania Twain
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Shania Twain.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.
I want romance.
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.
I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.
I've been performing my whole life.
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
I enjoyed working at McDonald's.
There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.
My father was a beautiful man.
It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.
So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.
Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.
I have two fathers.
Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.
I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.
There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
I enjoy sports in person.
Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
Suffering does not discriminate.
My life revolves around my child's routine.
I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.
I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
My voice is stronger today than ever.
I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!
Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.
I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.
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