Mcanally Quotes

#1. In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd.

Jim Butcher

#2. In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

Jim Butcher

#3. When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.

Shane McAnally

#4. I wake up every day thinking, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There's nothing left to say, and I'm completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I'm on again.

Shane McAnally

#5. No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

Leszek Kolakowski

#6. When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Shane McAnally

#7. I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.

Shane McAnally

#8. The Nashville Network, that's all I would watch as a kid.

Shane McAnally

#9. Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action,

Raghuram Rajan

#10. I'm a commercial-minded songwriter. I'm here to make a living and be on the radio.

Shane McAnally

#11. I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

Shane McAnally

#12. One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.

Shane McAnally

#13. West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that.

Shane McAnally

#14. I don't like institutions that are beyond normal parliamentary scrutiny. It's an invitation to abuse of power, no matter how noble the intentions.

Stieg Larsson

#15. The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.

Shane McAnally

#16. He had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe.

C.J. Cherryh

#17. But the day is spent;
And stars are kindling in the firmament,
To us how silent
though like ours, perchance,
Busy and full of life and circumstance.

Samuel Rogers

#18. If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.

Shane McAnally

#19. I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

Shane McAnally

#20. Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.

Tippi Hedren

#21. Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

Shane McAnally

#22. That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.

Shane McAnally

#23. It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

Shane McAnally

#24. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.

Nikki Rowe

#25. We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have.

Shane McAnally

#26. When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

Brooke Astor