Anne Murray Quotes

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

The Moodies is a responsibility to deliver the goods every night onstage and to do it sincerely; otherwise, it doesn't work. You've got the three guys left in the Moodies that really want to do it onstage, so I think we're truer to the old records now than we ever were.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

Basically, I live to do gigs.

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

Every band wants to play in every city. We all do.

For someone like me, if I ever had huge success or whatever that is, I would just play smaller venues two to three nights in a row just to keep the intimacy level there and that's my take on it, but it just depends what you're going for.

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

I think our live shows dispelled any misconceptions people had about us. When you come see us live, you know we're anything but a boy band.

We did 300 shows in our first two years.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.