Natalie 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. '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

#3. That's a woman's greatest opportunity. Corner a man when he's got a hard-on, and he'll tell you anything you want. He can't help it.

Christina Elle

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

Natalie MacMaster

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

Natalie MacMaster

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.

Arthur Eddington

#9. 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

#10. The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Marianne Williamson

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

Natalie MacMaster

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Natalie MacMaster

#16. 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

#17. Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

Davy Jones

#18. ROSE FELT LIKE she had a neon sign flashing over her head - looking for a one night stand, only sex gods need apply.

Mary J. Williams

#19. The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

Simon Schama