Anne Murray Solitary Quotes

Anne Murray Solitary Quotese

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

— Anne Murray

I like to stay active.

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

I find that touring keeps your voice in great shape.

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

I was going to become a teacher.

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

My kids suffered because I wasn't home enough.

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

I loved the Everly Brothers better than anybody.

— Anne Murray

A good singer can sing anything.

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

I've always had a quiet career.

— Anne Murray

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?'

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

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

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.

— Anne Murray

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.

— Anne Murray

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