Anne Murray Quotes

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

When you're on stage playing, when I plug in a guitar and chord, I'm 16 years old again. I feel the same excitement. It's very overwhelming. It engulfs you.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I have to remember that no matter how often I perform, there are certain songs that the audience truly wants to hear, and even though I've sung it 100,000 times, it may be their first time hearing them.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.

When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.

So many times I've gone to hear bands and thought, 'Oh, I can't wait to be on that stage.'

Performing live is a part of who I am.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.