Quotes from Anne Murray

But I'm a real Gemini; I'm completely different at home than when I'm on tour.

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.

I find that touring keeps your voice in great shape.

It was nice to be home for a change. Nice to be with my husband. Nice to be with the kids. But it's also nice to be touring again.

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

Canadian tours are big and difficult, because of the large spaces between cities.

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.

There's nothing I hate more than having to cancel shows. In 36 years of performing, I think I've only canceled six times.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.

People who buy my records don't go into music stores - music stores which are fading before our very eyes.

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

I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

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

I hated L.A., so spread out, so phony. It's like Vegas. It isn't real.

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.