Macmaster Quotes

#1. When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

Natalie MacMaster

#2. I'm very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I'm glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.

Natalie MacMaster

#3. It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

Natalie MacMaster

#4. I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

Natalie MacMaster

#5. I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.

Natalie MacMaster

#6. One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#7. Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#8. There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

Natalie MacMaster

#9. 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

Natalie MacMaster

#10. Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

Natalie MacMaster

#11. I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great ... I want to be a part of it.

Natalie MacMaster

#12. When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

Natalie MacMaster

#13. I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

Natalie MacMaster

#14. Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

Natalie MacMaster

#15. It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.

Joseph Alleine

#16. I don't know why you put up with me.

Christina Lauren

#17. The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

Pink

#18. I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

Rachel McAdams