Anne Murray Quotes

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record.

In this business, you're as good as your last hit record, and mine was more than 26 years ago.

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.

I'm glad 'Honest' came out right after 'Karate Chop,' because I don't want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.

We've always used that as a goal - the record that literally every single track on it could be a hit. A record that breaks doors down, that opens up new opportunities to us, that helps you achieve true immortality as an artist.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Other artists, they write 13 songs, and hopefully one or two of them are successful singles. And the other 11, for the most part, are filler.

I think, a lot of times, bands will break up because their goal is commercial success, and most bands aren't going to get that: it's out of their control. If you do, you're one of the lucky ones, but that commercial success will likely fade, and you'll end up breaking up anyway.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.

I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

There's definitely been some songs in the past that we've put out, and it was purely us going, 'Okay, we think radio will play this. We think this will be a hit. This will be big for the show,' and all this stuff. But it's like, do you really believe in it?

I started recording in '67. In the first part of '68, my first single was 'Backup Train.' That was success to a degree. Four years have passed by since then, and I have managed to come up with a few measly sellers.

The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'