Quotes by Anne Murray - Page 2

Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon - it was kind of neat for me.
Anne Murray / Singer
Barbara
Neat
Newton
Olivia
Category
Simon
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A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.
Anne Murray / Singer
Different Kinds
Music People Because
Categorize
Music People Want
Fought
Slot
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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.
Anne Murray / Singer
Relax
Best Music People
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I've never been overexposed or in people's faces, although there are some who argue that in the late '70s and early '80s, I was played a lot!
Anne Murray / Singer
Faces
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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.
Anne Murray / Singer
Roses
Smelling
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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 / Singer
Sorry
Time Me People
Pack
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People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.
Anne Murray / Singer
Serenity
Surroundings
Escape
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You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.
Anne Murray / Singer
Hit Record
Pack
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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 / Singer
Music Me Song
Sent
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There's an age group that's just not being entertained - the boomers. There's a void out there. It's nice to be one of those who can fill that void.
Anne Murray / Singer
Boomers
Void
Age Group
Entertained
Fill
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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 / Singer
Ads
Profile
People Know Only
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I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium, it didn't matter. I had to sing. I was meant to sing.
Anne Murray / Singer
Living Room
Auditorium
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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.
Anne Murray / Singer
Momentum
Compared
Hit Record
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There was a time when I never would have considered, ever, doing television commercials for records. I would never do that. That was something that you did for K-Mart.
Anne Murray / Singer
Time Doing Never
Commercials
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I've been playing Sunrise for years. I love it there. It's so loosey-goosey. I was up at the Kravis Center and it was, like, 'Oh my God!' All the minkdraggers, you know?
Anne Murray / Singer
Sunrise
Center
Love God Know
Oh My God
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No. I'm not. Nor have I ever been, although I know there are people who thought I was. I do have a lot of women friends, but none of them is gay, nor have they ever been.
Anne Murray / Singer
Friends
Gay
Women People Know
Although
Women Gay People
None
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When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.
Anne Murray / Singer
Country Singer
Pop Song
Cross
Pigeonholed
Pop Singer
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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.
Anne Murray / Singer
Chunks
Time Work Home
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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.
Anne Murray / Singer
Retired
Retirement
Disappeared
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You have to be real sharp when you're touring. I'm dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days.
Anne Murray / Singer
Cracks
Touring
Be Real
Sharp
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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 / Singer
Canada
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When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.
Anne Murray / Singer
Divorce
Painful
Discuss
Failures
Wants
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I was at home, pregnant, and everybody was telling me, 'You're on a roll, don't have another baby, wait a while.' Looking back, I realize my career was peaking when I was having babies, for God's sake!
Anne Murray / Singer
Looking Back
Pregnant
Sake
Babies
God Home Me
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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 / Singer
Life Experience
Missing
Life Experience Great
Different Places
Go Away
Great Life
Shared
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My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs - and even when I got into rock 'n' roll, that stayed with me.
Anne Murray / Singer
Crosby
Mills
Me People Parents
Bing
Ella
Fitzgerald
Me Parents People
Perry
Sarah
Stayed
Sung
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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 / Singer
Hockey
Our Town
Time Never School
Escaped
Indoor
Rink
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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 / Singer
Drummer
Fine
Son
Teens
Asked
Consider
Interview
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When I was a kid, it was just a wild dream to think that I would've had a career like this, and I really didn't think that was possible. But things just kind of started to roll, and I was caught up in it, and I went with it.
Anne Murray / Singer
Caught
Just Kind
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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.
Anne Murray / Singer
Surprise
Symphony
Torture
Smaller
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Once, I was up north with friends and, after dinner, one lady who was at the table said, 'Would you sing for me?' and I went 'Well, sure.' And the other women are looking and going, 'You never sing for us.' Well, you never ask me.
Anne Murray / Singer
Lady
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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 / Singer
Bedroom
Exhausted
Maple
Saturday
Saturday Night
Asleep
Television Set
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I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!
Anne Murray / Singer
Familiar
Remember When
Tree
Be Nice
Christmas Album
Decorate
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There are a lot of middle of the road artists of the '70s, who aren't being played anyplace. I think it's unfortunate in a way, because it stifles you sort of, you don't get to as many people but I've had a long and wonderful career, I have no complaints.
Anne Murray / Singer
Complaints
Long People Way
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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 / Singer
Anyone Else
Big Head
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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 / Singer
Fine
Seven
Six
University
Work Out
Work Men Me
First Thing
Mount
Suited
The First Thing
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