Lorrie Morgan
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When you think about the greats, like Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold and George Morgan, there really isn't that much of a difference between their singing and Andy Williams and Perry Como. It's just the instrumentation that was a lot different.
To be real, you have to sing about what you feel, and you have to be true to your fans.
If I could do acoustic shows for the rest of my life, that's fine with me. They require the right venues, small theaters or little bars. You can't take an acoustic show to a big ol' country music festival. It's more intimate, like being in my living room.
As you mature as a woman, you relate to songs differently. You've experienced more things. If I had a choice to have or have not had the tough stuff happen, well, I don't wish for that for anybody, to strengthen them or make them a better person.
I think the tabloids have become utterly ridiculous. When they just write on pure speculation, that's pretty sick.
My music has got to be something that makes me happy.
Nobody - and I don't care if I marry somebody tomorrow - nobody could take Keith Whitley's place. Nobody.
It was and still is the greatest highlight of my career, being a member of the Opry.
That's where I fell in love with country music, there at the Opry with Dad by my side.
When I walk past Little Jimmy Dickens, he'll say, 'Hey Morgan!' Those are the moments you can't buy, when you're idols know your name and they mess with you and play jokes on you.
The Opry takes dedication and it takes love. It takes love.
My dad and mom took us to Canada. I loved it - the cool clean air, the green mountains and the Canadian accents. That trip is one of my favorite childhood memories as a family.
I would like to visit Bora Bora.
My worst vacation ever was when we went to Cancun with the kids! It was during hurricane season. We had to make alternate plans to head home early, cutting our Cancun vacation short. We ended up in Texas at a water park for a whole week! Not exactly what we had planned.
I think when tragedies happen a lot of people go to therapy, psychiatrists, whatever, because they need to have someone to talk to. There's thousands of people a night that I get to talk to, by way of my music.
I didn't want to go out on dates on Friday and Saturday night, because I wanted to go to the Opry with my dad. I learned a lot being in the heart of the music business and made some of my best friends there.
In school I sometimes felt I didn't have music in common with other kids.
Nashville has gotten so big and too technical and too polished.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry is making records. They have one hit and are gone forever.
I am a shoe freak.
There is just something about a symphony that moves my soul.
There comes a time in everybody's musical career that you have to regroup and reinvent yourself.
I try to grow with every album.
I try to find songs that say something about what I feel, songs that deal with the things people feel in their lives.
Walk a mile in my shoes, then come tell me how to live my life.
I want to enjoy my husband and my home and my children.
I've reached an age where I don't want to be on the road all the time.
You just have to kind of roll with the punches and say, 'Think what you want to think. I know who I am.'
I had a lot of higher-up people tell me, 'You need to act such-and-such a way and go out to this club and that club and be seen with these certain people.'
I got the reputation of being hard to work with. It has been hard for me to get rid of it.
L. A. isn't particularly my scene.
During the '80s, Nashville didn't believe women were songwriters and performers. It was an unfortunate thing, because I love writing songs.
There's something special about recording something that's as personal as your own songs.
Another Lonely Song' is one of the most meaningful songs I've ever done.
I heard 'Angel' because my children are huge Sarah McLachlan fans. When I heard it for the first time I just cried my eyes out.
Secretaries don't take their kids to work; why should I?
A lot of times you idolize somebody from a distance and you get to meet them and you think, 'Eyuck. I wish I had never met you people.'
I would like to start acting, making movies.
I think women need to be babied and pampered and loved and cuddled.
Country music fans aren't stupid. I'm not stupid.
Once a redneck always a redneck.
I'm the biggest hypochondriac you've ever seen in your life. When I get real stressed out, every little ache and pain I have is something major. If I've got a headache, it's a brain tumor; if I've got a chest pain, it's a heart attack.
Even though a lot of people have recorded 'Unchained Melody' - Elvis Presley, Roy Hamilton, Frank Sinatra, LeAnn Rimes, Diana Ross and the Supremes come to mind - I don't think I'd like to cut it in the studio. I've had plenty of opportunities to record songs from the Great American Songbook, but 'Unchained Melody' has never been one I've picked.
Sad songs are what move people.
I've never said, 'If it ain't country, it ain't good.'
I love to perform. It's all I know.
I've always had to be a survivor, kind of a loner.
That concerns me, that we're reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.
I've paid a lot of dues, learned a lot, seen people come and go, what to do and what not to do.