Shania quotes & and stories

[cbspock]

"I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life."

"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."

"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."

"I've seen alot of bar fights. If one broke out in front of me I'd get right in there, as I can't stand to see people hitting each other. I'd be trying to split them up, Like I was going to be able to do anything! I'm surprised I didn't get myself killed!"

"I'm a morning person. I don't sleep in. So if I'm going to be up I prefer to do my work in the morning because I hate breaking up my day."


Found these on the OFC board...

1)"a happy heart comes first then the happy face i believe in that very much...just learning that life has to go on and you have to make it go on...that's all there is to it"

2)"i guess the thing to remember is that no matter how tough things can get in your life,you still have the power to make a choice,you can fade away or you can strive to survive"

3)"we're all very selfish people,we love the attention when its complimentary,and we hate the attention when it sucks.i dont like bad attention,i like good attention,im no different than anyone else"

4)"just one day we hugged each other,but it was such a different kind of hug,and that was actually when we knew...it was a very sweet,honest moment...looking at him the day i fell in love and looking at him the day before? two different things"

[stcrazygal07]

i really like those quotes. quite a few of them i have seen before and i have them typed out in a pretty font and color and on the cover of my notebook for school.

these are the ones that are on my notebook:

"I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life."

"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."

“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."

"Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.”

"I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful."

[stcrazygal07]

oh, and i forgot to say this, thanks! i love hearing/reading shania quotes! they always inspire me!:)

[cbspock]

You are welcome.


-Chris

[resessions]

And of course one of her most recent quotes:

"TRACY ROCKS!" :D

[resessions]

I also liked what she said about Dolly in the Switzerland interview. I'll have to look again at that recording tonight and write it down, unless somebody else has it...She talks about Dolly the way we talk about Shania...."If she had the chance to just hang out, what are the things she'd do/ask" .

[Cheryl]

Thanks for posting these quotes also! I love to read anything Shania has to say because sometimes I can relate to what she says or she is so inspirational and it puts a smile on your face!!!:BigLove

[FV]

This one from the UP! CD booklet:

"This music has taken a magical journey. What a trip!"

I think this is the same thing I can say about my experience with Shania's music.....what a trip! and I am looking forward to more to come!:BL

[stcrazygal07]

Originally posted by FV
This one from the UP! CD booklet:

"This music has taken a magical journey. What a trip!"

I think this is the same thing I can say about my experience with Shania's music.....what a trip! and I am looking forward to more to come!:BL

absolutely agree! 110%!! :D

[cbspock]

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Spotlight/2005/01/02/804652-sun.html


"During the hardship of my childhood, Dolly Parton was such a staple of my life ... And so to have her there, it was just really weird and it was very emotional. It was a personal moment, that's what it was, and it was on TV."

-- Shania Twain on crying on Oprah during an appearance with Dolly Parton.



"All I had to do was slap Jude Law around a little bit and get mad at him. It was fun."

-- Shania Twain on her cameo in I (Heart) Huckabees.

[cbspock]

More quotes........

as for the purist naysayers, twain sneers playfully: "as if i care ...
"look, i know i push the country music envelope, but so have most of the country artists i love — dolly parton, waylon jennings, willie nelson. the purists didn't like them at first either. i'm not a purist. i'm just trying to find a place where my music fits.
"and when you get down to it, i'm as country as it gets. i know traditional country artists better than most of the country singers who put me down.
"you'll never hear any of these new guys singing politically incorrect songs like `take this job and shove it!' like johnny paycheck did in the 1970s, or women singing about abortion, like dolly did.
"those songs were their identities. i lived and breathed those songs. i'm the real deal.
"i'm no cowgirl. ... hell, i'm a bush girl, and that's much tougher!" as she chuckles.



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"Forty is just another birthday. It doesn't make any difference you change physically, but I'm happy to do that."

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"I don't fit anywhere, I fit with you guys.''- Shania Twain on her fans

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"We live in a very remote area, we live out in the wilderness, we live out on the lake. We've got dogs and horses. Real things that I like to go back to, y'know, because my dogs don't care where I am on the charts."

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"I met Mutt at fan fair, Mutt is a big fan of country music. When I first went to his house to write with him, he had the biggest country music collection I'd ever seen."


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"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
-Shania Twain

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"i mean i'll never not be country, how can you not ," shania asks. "how can you be something and then not be it any more? i mean i just don't understand that. country is so deep in my roots and such a huge part of my youth, my most impressionable years, that it's just not going anywhere and i think even for people who listen to me in pop and all that sort of thing, the style of the way i write, which is very conversational lyrics, very real lifestyle lyrics, comes from my country roots.

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"country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. it's getting bigger and better all the time and i'm glad to be a part of it."

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"i have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength."

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"without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music."

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"writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. it's the most fun thing i do."

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"the only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. that's the only reason. it doesn't sell your music for you."


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"i think it's when i get out of the tub. your skin is fresh and you've stuck your hair up without even looking. that's when you look your best." (when asked when she feels most sexy)

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"i'm basically a bar singer, i am a bar singer who ended up on a concert stage."

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"He on his own has never had this kind of success. And me on my own, I doubt very much I would have had this kind of success. First of all, would I even have found anyone who had so much faith in me? Part of why I think I flourished is because he believed so much in me. He loved my voice; he loved my songwriting. He was my biggest fan."

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"I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life."

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"I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful." - Shania

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Shania on her favorite thing to wear...
I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed because it would have to be my sweats and a pair of flip-flops. I'm not into fancy clothes most of the time. But I like to feel like a woman - I feel sexy in a plain white T-shirt with nothing underneath. My husband disagrees. He thinks nude is sexy. He likes me naked. Still, I like the white T-shirt. :hyst:
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[cbspock]

Shania hosting the Junos.....

Talking to the group Swollen Members....

Shania was standing in front of the group Swollen Members out in the audience and she said, "Sorry about my butt there guys. You know, I would take a seat! But I wouldn't want to sit on a swollen member!"


:hyst:

Our Shania just loves those double entendres


-Chris

[cbspock]

Here are some more interesting things...


So you do have fights?
Sure there are days I would like to throw him in lake geneva. But thats a pretty big lake. I figure if I did I would never find him again and by the next day I would be sorry and it would be too late.


So it's you the baby and mutt. Who do you turn to if you have a fight?
I never talk to anybody about our fights. I am not going to get outside opinions. It just confuses me. Just like when we do our music. Having someone else control our music would be creative hell.


How do you parent eja?
I'm more the disciplinarian. Mutt doesn't see anything wrong with having chocolate if you are in the mood for chocolate. But when the kid is 3 and it is a half hour until dinner the kid can't have chocolate

[cbspock]

These are about Shania....


"Thank God for Shania. She changed that mindset . Leave it to Shania to shake things up." -Reba


Here she is, completely ignored by the CMA this year, and yet there she was singing on the show. Then she seeks me out to talk. We talked about a lot of things, she asked about my family, and things that are really important. She's just a class act,"-Toby Keith


“She’s so down-to-earth and sweet and he’s great. The first time he was introduced to us, the first thing he said was ‘Sorry we took so long (at sound check)’ — and it’s their show!”

They also managed to shock Lange when they played Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You).

“He stopped in his tracks … he’d forgotten he’d written it,” chuckles Mates. -Emerson Drive


Dolly Parton.....
Parton explains, "Shania said, 'Don't let anybody have Coat of Many Colours, and Dolly has to sing harmony.'

"After she recorded it, I sang harmony on it and when they sent Shania the track, she just cried like a baby.

"I thought, 'Well, if you can live long enough and do something special enough to bring out that kind of emotion in somebody, that's what it's all about.'"


Shania Twain has carved out her own place in country. Until she came along, there
was no job description for what she is -- a pop femme fatale in country, for want of
a better term. She's playing by her own rules. And she's changing the audience."
Chet Flippo, Nashville correspondent for Billboard


"If she could just sell a few more albums she might just hit
it big and I'll let her open for me on my next world tour."
Terri Clark joking about Shania at the 1998 CCMA's


"Shania's a different kind of performer. She's an energy. She's beautiful, she's
got a great body, she loves to perform"
Pierre Cossette, Grammy producer


"She had a vision for what she wanted to go do, and
anything less than achieving that was half-assed to her."
Toby Keith, toured with Shania in 1993


"Anne Murray cracked the door to success in America. Michelle Wright wedged
it a little more. Shania blew it wide open."
Cliff Dumas, CISS FM


"Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined."
Rex Murphy, New Year's Eve/97 edition of CBC TV's National Magazine

This was the greatest natural talent that I have ever been personally involved with."
Richard Frank, attorney who has represented Patsy Cline among others.
He was asked to see Shania perform at Deerhurst Resort


"She's been at the top of the charts for two years, and she still hasn't gotten
the pats on the back that she deserves." (because she'd never won an ACM award - before 99)
Reba McEntire


"A lot of people are accusing her of being packaged. But I don't think this is a
marketing-driven artist. It's been her vision from the beginning -- all the clothes, all the
looks, all the concepts."
Luke Lewis, Nashville president of Mercury


"I don't think the (Dixie) Chicks have opened any doors
for us. The biggest door opener for us has been Shania Twain and her style of country."
Kelsi (from SHeDaisy)


"She's developing into a big star. People love her. They've taken to her like a duck to water."
Trevor Smith, Australia Country Music Association


"What hasn't she done for country music, and what hasn't she done for females in country
music? She deserves everything she gets, absolutely."
Tim McGraw at the 2000 ACMA's, on losing the Entertainer of the Year award to Shania


"We market Shania like a pop star because she is a pop star internationally."
David Lory, vice president of artist development and international marketing for Mercury Records


"I was really hoping she'd win. That was her first award on the CMAs, to my knowledge," McEntire tells LAUNCH. "She didn't win album of the year at the ACM or CMAs--she should have. She was at the top of the charts forever, and she wasn't recognized for that, and I apologized several times for that to her. I said, 'I'm sorry. That's not fair.' And when she won the entertainer of the year, and for me to get to pass that to the next female to receive it since I was the last to receive it in '86, was perfect! I stepped away from the microphone and said, 'I am so thrilled to be able to present this to you.' It meant the world to me."-Reba

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More from Shania....

"If you saw me the way I normally am, you wouldn't think I was so beautiful - I don't know what you would think." (on her looks)



I'm not just a lap dancer afterall..." (after winning the 1999 CMA Entertainer Of The Year award) HEY1 One of the best Shania quotes ever!


"It's so easy to get flattered by everything that's going on around you. And it's okay to be flattered, but it's not okay to lose a true sense of humility. And it's hard. Sometimes you're trying to build your confidence and confidence comes from ego. In order to be really confident, and do a good job, it's kind of an ego thing. So, how do you do that and stay humble at the same time? ... I think humility is the most important thing for me to remember."


"Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

[cbspock]

About Mutt:
"When we met in person, I thought he was the warmest, sweetest man". The impact it had on me, was I knew he would be in my life forever (wonder if this is where FAFA comes from) not even because it was love at first sight, because I didn't even think that. For some reason, deep down, I knew he was the one." How did their professional relationship turn to romance? "Because it was meant to be" Twain answers. "And totally unlikely because we were from two completely different worlds". "But it was such a powerful thing because we met and married within 6 months. We were just so sure. There wasn't even a question in our minds"


Mutt and Eja:
"At this point in my life, the space is just there, and he (Eja) came into our life, and nothing has had to change". Almost nothing.
Lange, one of the most noted producers in rock, is now the comsumate house husband, tirelessly doting over Eja while Twain plays pop star. In Melbourne this week, Lange was in the entourage, strictly behind the scenes, fiercely guarding his and Eja's privacy. "Mutt is a great dad, very helpful in many ways. I cook, he cleans, and we are just a good team. He's great with the baby, and he's been there from the very first day. Hands on, all the way". Twain says her eyes sparkling............"Mutt exists, we have wedding photos, and he is in them." Twain says. "It's almost as if this whole privacy thing is working against him, because he is famous for not wanting to be famous. Very ironic".
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"Mutt and I live very low profile lives., we don't seek the spotlight, unless it's something to do directly with my music."
"As a family, we don't look for photo opportunities, and have not allowed ourselves to be part of the tabliod soap scene. That spares us a lot of unnecessary exposure."



Raising Eja:
"I want to instill in Eja, honesty and humility" Twain says "I want him to stay down to earth, and stay real".
"Those things are so important to me because you never know what is going to happen in this world. You never know if you're going to have money from one day to the next. You have to be prepared to live in the real world. "I don't want to raise him thinking he's protected from the rest of the world. That would not be right."

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She says, "Having a child and becoming a mom is probably the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me. It's really changed me and the way I look at the world. Eja comes everywhere with me, even when we're on the road, because I want to be with him all the time.

"But, unfortunately, I can't write music when he's around because I can't focus at all. He demands my complete attention. I find it impossible to divide my attention between him and my work. I can't be playing with him and writing, or changing his diaper and writing. -Shania


SHANIA TWAIN: SOME LIFE PHILOSOPHY

Shania Twain remains one of the most supremely grounded entertainers around and her personal take on life shows why. Regarding her marriage, distance never hurt it. "Time doesn't mean anything, and you pick up where you left off. And it's that much more exciting. And we're always making plans...so that continues - which in a lot of people's relationships, ends after just the first year." Shania on life in the spotlight, "I think you must be prepared to take the good with the bad, and I think it's best just to stay on an even keel. Realize that your career is a separate entity from your personal life," she says. And with all her power and wealth, she takes nothing for granted. "I'm always a little guarded and prepared for the worst. That is my tendency, and it comes from my childhood to be prepared for things to go wrong at any time. As wonderful as things are, play my own devil's advocate," she says.

[cbspock]

So, should I keep adding quotes, or is no one interested??? I get the feeling no one is, since no one is replying to anything posted so far.

-Chris

[corran]

Chris

Your efforts are certainly most appreciated...I love those Shania quotes...Quite a few of them I have heard before but you do put out a few I have not seen before...I always appreciate Shania quotes...Thanks Chris

Benjamin:)

[Alanb]

I'm enjoying them too Chris. :)

[irene cross]

THANK YOU CHRIS!

I really enjoy reading all the quotes.

Keep them coming.


SHE WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONE FOREVER AND FOR ALWAYS!

[STFanForever]

Please, keep 'em coming, Chris! I really appreciate them! I love Shania quotes!:D

[Cheryl]

Thanks, Chris for posting these quotes because some of these I have seen and some I haven't! I was just enjoying reading all of them and smiling along the way because she has such a sense of humor and is also so inspirational!!:)

[cbspock]

I was just wondering if anyone was reading them. I would have thought some of them would have sparked some conversations already.


-Chris

[sas]

Originally posted by cbspock
So, should I keep adding quotes, or is no one interested??? I get the feeling no one is, since no one is replying to anything posted so far.

-Chris YES
I love reading them in one sitting... some I have actually carried in my pocket and when the work day gets a little tough I just read and soon I'm smiling again....:) Shania's words & voice weather in her music or just an interview have always been soothing to me...SHE IS ALWAYS POSITIVE :BL

[cbspock]

Here is an interesting quote...


I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing. -Shania Twain


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I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such a name. I'm sure he must've thought that was quite funny. He must've known from that autograph, right off the bat, that I had no idea who he was. -Shania Twain

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I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know. -Shania Twain


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If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.-Shania Twain

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It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique. -Shania Twain


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My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success. -Shania Twain


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Here is a famous one....

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue. -Shania Twain


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Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.-Shania Twain

[cbspock]

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. -Shania Twain


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"I'd rather clean my toilet than go to a show-business party." -Shania Twain

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"I learned tons about the meaning of service there." -Shania Twain on working at McDonalds

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Shania talks about the industry....

I don't have to worry about what people are thinking and what's going on in the industry. I don't want that stuff to influence what I'm doing. Because I think it stifles you creatively. I don't want to have to care too much about that. All I care about is what the fans think. It's really all I care about, honestly." -Shania


As for the purist naysayers, Twain sneers playfully: "As if i care ..."


Look, I know I push the country music envelope, but so have most of the country artists I love — Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson. the purists didn't like them at first either. I'm not a purist. I'm just trying to find a place where my music fits." -Shania


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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing." -Shania

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Another one of her famous quotes.....

"A happy heart comes first then the happy face. I believe in that very much. Just learning that life has to go on and you have to make it go on,.that's all there is to it" -Shania

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"I guess the thing to remember is that no matter how tough things can get in your life, you still have the power to make a choice. You can fade away or you can strive to survive." -Shania

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"We're all very selfish people.We love the attention when its complimentary and we hate the attention when it sucks. I don't like bad attention. I like good attention. I'm no different than anyone else." -Shania

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I guess this is when she was being dumped on for "lying" about her indian background...

"Being in the public eye, there are people that are going to want to hurt you, y'know. They've got motives and this is happenning to me right now and it is something that I am taking quite personally." -Shania

"It was very hard on my native family, I'm a registered band member, I've been part of their community since I was a little child. It's very hurtful to know there are people who want to unravel all that." -Shania

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"I don't like drugs. I don't like alcohol. I like clean living people around me."-Shania on picking her band


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"It was never my dream to be a star. That was my parents dream. I guess they prayed real hard." - Shania

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This is obviously before Eja came along...

"My perfect day would start with breakfast out on the terrace, looking at the Alps. I'd wrap a duvet round myself, lounge around, then put on a soup or stew. Then I'd spend time with my horses. I'd come home, have a nice dinner and then Mutt and I would go watch a movie." -Shania

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"My husband calls me Woody. When I met him, he thought I looked like Woody Woodpecker [because of her current haircut]. My family calls me Leen or Leeny, except for my grandmother who calls me Shania." - Shania

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"I've always been so intense. I have to learn how to chill out. My husband is great at that. I love to cook, so when I'm home that helps me to relax." -Shania

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"I was always a communicative performer, so I've just taken that on to a bigger stage. I don't like being seperated from the audience. I really enjoy the communication I have going on." -Shania

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"I start every day with a fruit and tofu shake. I always have liked soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner - and I love pasta. There are just so many ways to make pasta. And the Italians gave us so many wonderful sauces - your basic tomato, basil, olive oil, garlic." -Shania (eating on tour)

"To be honest, I'm pretty exhausted, I soak in a hot bath and then go to bed. I'm not one of those people who stays up til four in the morning eating pizza and drinking beer." -Shania (on tour COO)


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"I started at such a young age that I really feel old. I feel older than I am because I've lived such a full life already. I keep saying 'Oh, I'm so tired' " -Shania (toward the end of COO)

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"I'm very independent. I've always been very bold, straightforward and black 'n' white about things in everyday life. I like to simplify things, get to the facts. That's always been the way I've been and nothing has ever been able to distract me - it's almost an insensitive quality. When your raised poor, and you've got lots of responsibilites as a child, you just end up that way, and it actually can be a bitter thing, but when my parents died, it just made me realize how valuable life is, how really fragile life is." -Shania

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This could explain some of the hate for her on Music Row...

"Women are strong, and women admire beauty just as much as men do. I'll tell you one thing, men are more intimidated by me than the women. I'm not kidding." -Shania

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"Sometimes we would literally go two or three days at a time where we'd sit by the fire and start writing in the morning, go for a walk later in the afternoon, go for a horseback ride or eat, then write, go to bed really late, get up early in the morning and start all over again."-Shania (writing COO)


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"Just one day we hugged each other. But it was such a different kind of hug and that was actually when we knew. It was a very sweet, honest moment. Looking at him the day I fell in love and looking at him the day before? Two different things." -Shania talking about Mutt

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It's not that one minute I'm a pop artist and the next minute I'm a country artist. I'm just who I am. I'm capable of making the music sound however I want to make it sound."-- Shania


"My music is country with a lot of outside influences. it is a mix of a lot of different styles of music."-- Shania


"Music makes me feel good, it makes me feel sad, it stimulates me and inspires me. It's like magic."-- Shania


"It's so easy to get flattered by everything that's going on around you. And it's okay to be flattered, but it's not okay to lose a true sense of humility. And it's hard. Sometimes you're trying to build your confidence and confidence comes from ego. In order to be really confident, and do a good job, it's kind of an ego thing. So, how do you do that and stay humble at the same time?... I think humility is the most important thing for me to remember."-- Shania



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You can learn alot about Shania from all of these. So what is everyone's favorite Shania quote? It doesn't have to be one I already posted. If you have anymore please add them.


-Chris

[cbspock]

"I guess the thing to remember is that no matter how tough things can get in your life, you still have the power to make a choice. You can fade away or you can strive to survive." -Shania


HEY1



-Chris

[STFanForever]

Thanks for posting these Chris! I can't really pick a favorite, because every one means something, and every one just sticks in your head. But, let me tell you what I do with these. I write all of them down in my notebook, take them to school, and when I'm feeling bummed or things just aren't going my way, I take the notebook out and read them. The funny thing is, I'll be reading them, which gives me this huge smile on my face, and then someone will ask me "What are you smiling about?" But, some people just don't understand the power of Shania's words. Leave it to Shania to make me smile and brighten up any day! :D

[Steve F]

Here is something very interesting I found in my paper files on Shania from AstroMaggi for Astronet, Women.com [copyright 2000] It was published on the net 6-28-2000. It goes all through her story that we are all familiar with, but the final paragraph is a little unnerving in that they pretty much predicted in advance things top come:

"According to her progressed horoscope, Shania will be one of the most popular recording artists of the 21st century, too. With progressed Moon in Capricorn for the next twelve years, she'll have as much work as she can handle. Shania will gain popularity with an older group of fans during this time. Because her progressed Jupiter has just entered Cancer, her home life looks fortunate, too. She and Robert will purchase a new home and consider having a child in the next few years. Shania deeply appreicates her current circumstances because of the personal and financial hardships suffered during her youth. It's something Shania will even sing about soon."

I think this is eerie that this horiscope predicted all this in June of 2000, well before any of it actually happened.:eek: ;)

Now, I couldn't find the site where this came from, it no longer exists, but here is the home page for Astrolgy.com/astronet; and a new Celebrity Astrology site I found for Shania after a lot of digging and it is pretty cool. It really has her numbers, if you get my drift.;)

http://horoscopes.astrology.com/astronet/features&fun/Entertainment/stars_on_stars_articles/shania.htm

http://astrozine.astrology.com/stars/reports/stwain.html

Enjoy!!!!!! Wow!!! After reading this again, it is uncanny how it relates to Shania in the way we have come to know her and about her. Unbelievable.;)


Steve

[corran]

Steve

You can wonder about the stars all you desire but it does not happen unless you make it happen in this case Shania and Mutt made it happen...The statements are pretty general in the horoscope, but it did predict she would obtain a new home, which is true...As for being a success story that rests squarely on the combined talents of Shania and Mutt because they made it happen together...But their new home is pretty amazing...I bet it did not predict that Shania would take up a new line of work...Sheep farming and thoroughbred horse raising on a ranch...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

Fascinating!

That is wild. Shania hasn't written that song yet. :D

They have the baby, and new home in NZ. As to more work, Shania is working on that charity, and Sheep Farm. So those parts worked out..lol


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I need to add a quote page to my site. I have quotes on some pages, but I think I need a page dedicated to them.


-Chris

[Steve F]

Originally posted by corran
Steve

You can wonder about the stars all you desire but it does not happen unless you make it happen in this case Shania and Mutt made it happen...The statements are pretty general in the horoscope, but it did predict she would obtain a new home, which is true...As for being a success story that rests squarely on the combined talents of Shania and Mutt because they made it happen together...But their new home is pretty amazing...I bet it did not predict that Shania would take up a new line of work...Sheep farming and thoroughbred horse raising on a ranch...

Benjamin:)

The second article I gave I agree is general but is also quite accurate. On the other hand, it's too bad I can't paste the article on here, but that article from June of 2000 "was" directly related. It's title was "Shania Twain: Completing Her Karmic Tasks." The first paragraph talks about her tough time growing up which we are all aware of. The final sentence says: "Her current success in both the pop and country charts is evidence of her talent, but her family story tells more about her good heart."

The next paragraph goes on to tell the story of her parents death, etc., then talks about "the position of the North Node of the Moon. It then says: "Shania's North Node falls in Gemini, the sign of the zodiac connected with brothers and sisters. It shows that her relationship with them would be the most challenging she will ever face. Having met her karmic obligations early on, Shania was then free to make herself known in the world of music, a job she'd been preparing for all of her life."

There is more, but this gives you an idea that there was obviously knowledge of Shania's life in writing this article.

I can't say I am a true believer in these things or not, but what does impress me is that these daily horoscopes, etc., quite often are close to what is happening to you on certain days. Again, I wouldn't call myself a believer Benjamin, but I found this to be very interesting and entertaining regarding Shania.

Steve

[Cheryl]

I love all of her quotes, but the ones that made me laugh or chuckle, as she would say, was that she knows more about traditional country artists more than the ones that put her down and that she is no cowgirl, but a bush girl and that is alot tougher! She is so right and just one reason why I can relate to her hard work ethic than Gretchen Wilson! I also like that one about she would rather clean her toilet than going to a Hollywood party!! Good girl and really funny!!!:D It is so hard not to like or love this woman! She is a class act and a breath of fresh air!!!:)

[Cheryl]

That is really eerie, Steve, but also very interesting and how true!:)

[corran]

Shania is indeed a class act Cheryl...There are lots of qualities that I love about Shania, but her dedication impresses me the most besides her music and song writing...

Benjamin:)

[corran]

Steve

I know it is a pretty amazing coincidence but still there is no substitute for dedication and determination...That is how Shania got there...One of the other reasons I love Shania is because she works so close with her husband Mutt Lange...They are such a close knit team together...It is hard for me to even imagine Shania without Mutt Lange today because they are one together...They are also a force to be reckoned with in the world of music...Before Shania even met Mutt Lange he had an extensive library on Country Music...He was obviously looking for a partner with a backround in Country Music...Instead he ended up marrying Shania Twain...I guess Shania must have impressed Mutt Lange much and for her reward he helped her with her music...Love is the magic I believe in Steve...If you have that and a little talent you can make wonders happen...I know Shania and Mutt would only smile in agreement...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Cheryl
she knows more about traditional country artists more than the ones that put her down and that she is no cowgirl, but a bush girl and that is alot tougher! She is so right and just one reason why I can relate to her hard work ethic than Gretchen Wilson!


Also. you don't see Shania gulping down a bottle of whiskey on commercials for her special on CMT.


-Chris

[cbspock]

"I would love to have his life, to do the music and not have to be famous. I'm more private than people realize. I'm not easy to get to know. My husband's the only one who really knows me. To get through the kind of life I've been through, you have to be strong, and it's wonderful when you find the right person who can share everything about you." - Shania



"All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."-Shania


"It makes me very excited to know that I might be in someone's record collection who has no other country records. And then at the same time, I'm in another record collection of people who just listen to country music and they wouldn't dare listen to anything else. They both have my record. I'm very flattered by that. Isn't it great that music can cross those boundaries?"-Shania



"Up until I was a recording artist, I sang whatever paid the bills... I really thought that as a poor kid I would never make it."-Shania



"I refuse to play down the way I look in order to be taken seriously as an artist, I mean if I had an office job, I wouldn't show up for work baring my midriff, But this is Entertainment, I don't want to be 50 years old and thinking I should have enjoyed it while I had it." -Shania



"It's not like i'm abandoning one to be the other. I am them.. legitimitly. I spent my whole youth singing in clubs doing whatever music paid the bills. If there were rock bars hiring that year.. I was a rock singer. If there were pop bars hiring that year.. I was a Top 40 singer. If there were country bars hiring that year.. I was a country singer. I've done them all. So, I am real, and this is what i do. -Shania



"I was so suprised! I grew up listening to Dolly Parton and Willy Neslon. I grew up listening to country artists who drank themselves flat on the floor, who were divorced three or four times, who had children with several different people. I'm squeaky clean compared to the country music I knew. If I'm already too daring for them.. that leaves me nowhere to go.-Shania

[cbspock]

More quotes about Shania.......


Check this out from the FLIPPER....CHET FLIPPO

"Shania Twain has carved out her own place in country. Until she came along, there was no job description for what she is -- a pop femme fatale in country, for want of a better term. She's playing by her own rules. And she's changing the audience." - Chet Flippo


Shania Twain is great, because she's smart and she's absolutely beautiful, and she writes these unbelievable songs. She's got a very commercial beat on the public. She knows what men want; she knows what women want. She knows how to do a song without offending anyone. - Dolly Parton


"She had a vision for what she wanted to go do, and anything less than achieving that was half-assed to her." - Toby Keith

[cbspock]

More from Shania......

"Out of the Yellow a huge man dressed as the Incredible Hulk jumped up on stage and picked me up. He hoisted me over his shoulders and walked back down to the dance floor. Then he whirled me around till I thought I was a goner."-Shania singing at halloween



"It's the first time I've ever worn a short skirt,'' said Twain, who usually favors outfits that expose her famous bellybutton. ``Dressing up is the fun part. I like looking good and I enjoy it." Shania at Grammy 99



Shania referring to her song "If You Want to Touch Her, Ask!...."You can't just grab her and help yourself. You have to ask, maybe she'll say yes...and maybe not."



"I'm just finally as an adult in my thirties being comfortable with the fact I'm female, and if I bounce when I walk then that's just life. It doesn't mean you're showing off and it doesn't give people the right to touch you because you do have breasts."-Shania


"I'm still not able to walk down the beach without a beach wrap. I don't think I ever will be able to. It's kinda dumb!" -Shania (now she wears the FAFA sweater hehe hehe)




-Chris

[Jud]

"I was so suprised! I grew up listening to Dolly Parton and Willy Neslon. I grew up listening to country artists who drank themselves flat on the floor, who were divorced three or four times, who had children with several different people. I'm squeaky clean compared to the country music I knew. If I'm already too daring for them.. that leaves me nowhere to go.-Shania

This one is so telling and interesting.
In the last two year country radio and industry alwys complained, that country music became too steril , and there is nothing raw or bad, or some sexual mentions etc....
And that's why they praising Wilson now.

But Shania is still blamed for selling with sex or whatever they wanna bring up against her.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Jud
This one is so telling and interesting.
In the last two year country radio and industry alwys complained, that country music became too steril , and there is nothing raw or bad, or some sexual mentions etc....
And that's why they praising Wilson now.

But Shania is still blamed for selling with sex or whatever they wanna bring up against her.


It's crazy isn't!

Tanya Tucker could sleep around and do drugs

Gretchen can be on CMT seen slugging down a bottle of
whiskey

Willie Nelson can be stoned

Big and Rich can turn the CMA into a freak show

etc,

all of that does not bother them, yet Shania shows her midriff and all heck breaks loose.


-Chris

[Amy4444]

Most of these quotes were taken from Tommy's #1 SHANIA TWAIN SuperSite (http://shania.funurl.com) :)

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Amy4444
Most of these quotes were taken from -] :)


Sorry, no. I don't go to that site. Most likely he got all that stuff from the sites I went to. Just like he takes all my scans from Shania's Place.



-Chris

[Amy4444]

Originally posted by cbspock
Sorry, no. I don't go to that site. Most likely he got all that stuff from the sites I went to. Just like he takes all my scans from Shania's Place.


-Chris
Hmmmm? Are you sure? :?? Ok, now you two are even. He takes your's, you take his.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Amy4444
Hmmmm? Are you sure? :??


Since I was the one gathering the quotes, I know where I went. That was not one of the sites.


-Chris

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Amy4444
Hmmmm? Are you sure? :?? Ok, now you two are even. He takes your's, you take his.


What don't you get??? I did not go to that site.


Check out google, there are a ton of sites with Shania quotes.

-Chris

[Amy4444]

Originally posted by cbspock
What don't you get??? I did not go to that site.


-Chris
Ok, if you say so. By the way, Tommy's site is great. :)

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Amy4444
Ok, if you say so. By the way, Tommy's site is great. :)



Whatever.


-Chris

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
Whatever.


-Chris

Now you sound like Shania Chris!:LMAO :drinks

Benjamin

[cbspock]

Now back to the quotes....................


"There's no way that I would go nude in a front. I don't think under any circumstances!" - Shania



"It's kind of fun, but I'm not sure what the definition of a diva is anymore. It could be an insult I suppose, but I think it's kind of fun." -Shania


"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind." -Shania


"I used to think anyone who lived in a brick house and didn't have to cut coupons to go to the grocery store was rich. I think, deep down, I always have that anxiety that I might be poor again." - Shania


"I would have no breakfast and nothing to eat at lunchtime, I would be at school, just sitting there famished when everyone was opening up their ham sandwiches. It was humiliating, so I would go to the music room and play." -Shania

[cbspock]

"He never comes with me I don't think he ever will, and I totally understand where he comes from. He's a humble guy and basically he doesn't want to be a star. He just wants to be a person who makes the music. People write that we're getting divorced but nothing could be further from the truth. We're a very happy couple. There are no inhibitions between us whatsoever."-Shania

[STFanForever]

Originally posted by cbspock


"Out of the Yellow a huge man dressed as the Incredible Hulk jumped up on stage and picked me up. He hoisted me over his shoulders and walked back down to the dance floor. Then he whirled me around till I thought I was a goner."-Shania singing at halloween



-Chris

Can somebody further explain this one for me? I've never heard it before.:confused:

[cbspock]

Originally posted by STFanForever
Can somebody further explain this one for me? I've never heard it before.:confused:


Shania was singing at Deerhurst I believe and it was Halloween.


-Chris

[STFanForever]

Originally posted by cbspock
Shania was singing at Deerhurst I believe and it was Halloween.


-Chris

Where did you hear/get this from?

[corran]

Chris

You really need to fess up about this encounter from Shania...It is one we all have not heard...and what does Shania mean that he came out of the yellow???Can you elaborate a bit more there???

Benjamin:D

[cbspock]

That was the whole quote. Sorry guys, there is no other part of the story, but I will keep looking.


-Chris

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
That was the whole quote. Sorry guys, there is no other part of the story, but I will keep looking.


-Chris

Thanks Chris! Well sometimes we just get partial show and tell...but hey that is some interesting facts...Must have been a hair raisin experience for Shania to be grabbed up like that...But you tell us that it took place in Deerhurst in her early days which we did not know before Chris...So thanks again dude...

Benjamin:)

[windcatcher]

Thanks for all the quotes. :D

I love the ones about Shania. lol I love it when people actually talk nice about her.

[Mary R]

Thanks for posting all these quotes Chris! I heard a few of these, but there are quite a few that I haven't heard before.


Originally posted by cbspock


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"I don't fit anywhere, I fit with you guys.''- Shania Twain on her fans

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I like this quote! Shania fits just right with us fans! We love Ya Shania!

Mary R

[Mary R]

Originally posted by cbspock

Shania Twain is great, because she's smart and she's absolutely beautiful, and she writes these unbelievable songs. She's got a very commercial beat on the public. She knows what men want; she knows what women want. She knows how to do a song without offending anyone. - Dolly Parton



Love this quote by Dolly! Ain't it the truth?! YEP!

Mary R

[Jud]

"I don't fit anywhere, I fit with you guys.''- Shania Twain on her fans

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:hugs: :group:

[Redhead Bee]

this is a great thread - Shania talks just as eloquently as she writes... that is not always the case for writers :)

here are some quotes i had collected for my site:

On her Parents:

"My parents were loving... we just didn't have any money."

"I called my mother my 'little angel.' She was very vulnerable."

"My mother did it all. She got me all those things. I still don't know how she did it, but she did."

"I remember, one evening, we had barely enough gas in the car for my dad to get to work the next day, so he refused to let me go to a club. My mother got me to sneak out of the window and meet her outside and then we drove off. He was pretty angry when we got back."

"I did a good job too (of hiding her poverty from friends at school). But you know what? I recognized as a kid that I wasn't the worst off. My mother had a lot of pride. We never went to school dirty or in ripped clothes. I always think of 'Coat of Many Colors,' the Dolly Parton song? So when I would see another kid that was dirty, I knew they didn't have the loving parents I had."

"They weren't living vicariously through me or anything like that. I think the only desperation was to have a child that succeeded. "It's like, if you have an Olympic athlete for a child, you are going to bite your fingers to the bone, wanting that child to succeed."

"My parents were big fans of country, and that's all they listened to. Because it was a small town and there was only one radio station, which was multi-format, I got to hear all the music that was happening. I was wearing bell-bottoms, really colorful, tight hip-huggers. My mother was wearing beehive hairdos. I remember very clearly The Mamas And The Papas and The Carpenters, who were big for me, and Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight...I loved it. In retrospect, it was one of the better times for music."

"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."

"For a long time, I didn't know which one of them to miss. How do you miss two people at once?"

"I never felt that life was over during that time and the family is much closer because of it. Time is a great healer and you've got to stop wishing for what will never happen. Mom and dad will never be here to celebrate my success.''

I used to feel their presence all the time. They would always come to me in my dreams. Then there was a time when I had this really strange dream - this was before I left Huntsville to get my recording contract - that in one way or another everything just seemed settled and okay and they just went on their way. I don't know anything about what happens after death, but whatever it is, they're doing it now. They just kind of released themselves and they were gone, and it was a very nice feeling of relie£ I guess it was just my own final letting go."

"That all seems like another lifetime ago, so far away, but it's never that far removed that I couldn't do it again. And there's a comfort there. I think if you are ever in a desperate situation and you get through it, you have a confidence in life that you would otherwise not have. I realize that no matter what I ever lose, I'll be able to manage."

"I'm just so happy that my parents' efforts and my family's efforts haven't been in vain. I know that my siblings are feeling like big winners right now."

[jan b]

thanks for all the quotes! it makes great reading;)

[cbspock]

I used to feel their presence all the time. They would always come to me in my dreams. Then there was a time when I had this really strange dream - this was before I left Huntsville to get my recording contract - that in one way or another everything just seemed settled and okay and they just went on their way. I don't know anything about what happens after death, but whatever it is, they're doing it now. They just kind of released themselves and they were gone, and it was a very nice feeling of relie£ I guess it was just my own final letting go."

Shania told a story in an interview after Up! came out that she had dream and saw her parents again, I will have to find it. She mentioned something like that they saw she was happy and she didn't need them anymore.


-Chris

[Steve F]

Originally posted by corran
Steve

I know it is a pretty amazing coincidence but still there is no substitute for dedication and determination...That is how Shania got there...One of the other reasons I love Shania is because she works so close with her husband Mutt Lange...They are such a close knit team together...It is hard for me to even imagine Shania without Mutt Lange today because they are one together...They are also a force to be reckoned with in the world of music...Before Shania even met Mutt Lange he had an extensive library on Country Music...He was obviously looking for a partner with a backround in Country Music...Instead he ended up marrying Shania Twain...I guess Shania must have impressed Mutt Lange much and for her reward he helped her with her music...Love is the magic I believe in Steve...If you have that and a little talent you can make wonders happen...I know Shania and Mutt would only smile in agreement...

Benjamin:)

I couldn't agree more Ben. When you think about it, Mutt's the big winner. Number 1, he got the girl of his dreams for a wife and partner, and number 2, he got just about all he could dream for in an artist to promote and produce. It doesn't get any better than that.HEY1 Yes, love is definitely the magic and talent can make wonders. We've seen it all in action.;)

Steve

[Cheryl]

I like that quote too, Mary about Shania fitting in with us fans!! That was really nice to read!!!:) I also like the ones on this page about her parents! I was so touched by what she said as I was reading them!:BigLove

[corran]

Originally posted by Steve F
I couldn't agree more Ben. When you think about it, Mutt's the big winner. Number 1, he got the girl of his dreams for a wife and partner, and number 2, he got just about all he could dream for in an artist to promote and produce. It doesn't get any better than that.HEY1 Yes, love is definitely the magic and talent can make wonders. We've seen it all in action.;)

Steve


Well you could say that it just got much better for Shania and Mutt because now they have a new playground to develop their music and all the privacy they may desire in New Zealand....Plus they have the perfect setting to make their songs...Simply beautifull...I don't think we have seen the best of Shania and Mutt who are gonna be such a love story...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

"I love to write stories," says Shania Twain, "Songwriting is my favorite part of what I do. I like to give every song its own personality and attitude and to sing each one in its own style."



-Chris

[cbspock]

"I can see on their faces what the songs mean to them. I'm affected by music, when I sit and listen I'm high by it, so when I see I'm affecting them the same way, I really feel I've done what I came to do." -Shania



"There is a typical Shania attitude in the lyric, a definite female confidence. It's all about a girl who knows what she wants, she not only knows how to get it, but she's going to get it good." -Shania (talking about IGGG)

[cbspock]

"I like to have fun with music. The purpose of music for me is to entertain. I'm not out there to be Einstein," she says. "I'm making music for records, not for text books. I'm looking to entertain and inspire people, make them feel good or stir up emotions"- Shania, Canadian Musician 1998

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
"I like to have fun with music. The purpose of music for me is to entertain. I'm not out there to be Einstein," she says. "I'm making music for records, not for text books. I'm looking to entertain and inspire people, make them feel good or stir up emotions"- Shania, Canadian Musician 1998


Yes Chris and I hope like that Shania will continue entertain and inspire us all because her music definately makes me feel good...I derive much joy from listening to her songs...

Benjamin

[cbspock]

"I think the most special moment we had together was when I got back from telling my family about my new relationship and how serious it was. Later, when I met up with Mutt after being apart for two weeks, I felt like my heart was going to beat out of my chest. He felt the same way, and we were like, "Oh, we can never be apart again" I had just never felt such a strong connection before. I felt like I had been away from him for ten years, and it had only been two weeks. That was probably the most powerful and intense time."

-Shania, Redbook 2002.

[cbspock]

On being apart during the COO Tour...

"Yeah, there were two years of me being away a lot, and I hated it. I don't want to do that again, so we won't do that again. But we got through it, and we're closer than ever!"

-Shania, Redbook 2002.

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
On being apart during the COO Tour...

"Yeah, there were two years of me being away a lot, and I hated it. I don't want to do that again, so we won't do that again. But we got through it, and we're closer than ever!"

-Shania, Redbook 2002.

Chris

I certainly understand what she means by that...I have gone through that myself in working for the US Coast Guard...I really do sympathize with her feelings there...But she has more reasons now to feel that way now that she is mother to Eja...

Benjamin:)

[SSA316]

These are wonderful quotes, I could read them all day! :BigLove

[cbspock]

"...I think that if anything ever happens to Mutt or Eja, that'll just be the end of me. Just put me in a straitjacket. I won't get through it. {Laughs} If anything happens to my husband or my child, I won't get through it. I just love my husband so much. He's like the most special person. He is half of me; Without him I would be half a person. I really would be. You might has well just cut off my arms and legs" -Shania, Redbook 2002.


"I had listened to country music as a young child, from Dolly Parton to Tammy Wynette to Willie Nelson. These were the people who lived coarse and tough lives and they were my influesnces. So when I went to Nashville, I had these in-your-face lyrics but no idea that it had turned into Pleasantville. They didn't want to know. In 1993, my first album appeared and disappeared." -Shania, Marie Claire 2002.


"My greatest fear is losing someone I love, because I know what it's like -how vulnerable human life is"- Shania, Marie Claire 2002.



More to follow

-Chris

[cbspock]

"Then when I was 22, my parents were killed in a car crash, when a logging truck hit them. My brother Mark, was in the car too, and survived, physically, if not emotionally. By that time, I was living in Toronto with my boyfriend. He was the one who answered the phone an had to tell me. I remember feeling totally lost, numb. For a time, I wasn't even there any more; then, slowly, I found myself again. Instead of grieving, I took on the responsibility of looking after my brothers and sisters. I was miserable, but there was nothing I could do about it, so I just didn't allow myself to grieve. I think it was almost a year until it sun in." -Shania, Marie Claire, 2002.



One funny one coming up....


-Chris

[cbspock]

"Back then , there were no romantic notions. I always figured he was another fat record producer with long greying hair in a ponytail. I was very surprised when I met this neat looking blond with long curly hair. Although he said he was never getting married again, when I came along there was just no avoiding it. We were just so obviously destined to be together"-Shania, Marie Claire, 2002.


"Now with our son, Eja, there is so much love in our family. He is just like Mutt; open, loving and warm. I'm not like that. I'm not as easy to reach all the time. They're good for me, good for my soul." -Shania, Marie Claire 2002.



-Chris

[Jud]

In 1993, my first album appeared and disappeared." -Shania, Marie Claire 2002.

I love her sense of humor...

BTW, what Shania song's lyrics is this reminding?

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Jud
I love her sense of humor...

BTW, what Shania song's lyrics is this reminding?


I also noticed while reading some of these quotes, and some of the others I have not posted yet that; they do remind me of some of her songs.


-Chris

[corran]

Chris

I have been a Shania fan long enough to have seen all those quotes you have just posted about Mutt Lange and Shania, but even though I have read them before they still bring warm tears to the eyes...I am very glad that Shania has Mutt Lange to lean on...Mutt fills the void and gives Shania happiness...So it is a match made in heaven as they say...

Benjamin:)

[SSA316]

"...I think that if anything ever happens to Mutt or Eja, that'll just be the end of me. Just put me in a straitjacket. I won't get through it. {Laughs} If anything happens to my husband or my child, I won't get through it. I just love my husband so much. He's like the most special person. He is half of me; Without him I would be half a person. I really would be. You might has well just cut off my arms and legs" -Shania, Redbook 2002."


agggh, I hate death... :(
It makes me sad reading stuff like this because death always does more damage to the surrounding people....and it is inevitable.
Although don't worry Shania, god forbid...if anything does happen then you will always have 80 Million+ fans who are there for you, forever and for always! ;)

[cbspock]

Not really a quote, but I thought it was interesting just because of what quotes I posted earlier today and it puts some of them into context.

This is from the Eggar book, page 200-202

Nobody paid much attention to Shania Twain at Fan Fair '93. Her record company were far more interested in Billy Ray Cyrus.....Until Mutt Lange showed up backstage with Bryan Adams. As Adams was pumping the flesh, Mutt who is uncomfortable with such things, shrank into the canvas. His eyes kept searching the crowd looking for one person. Shania came in and had Mutt pointed out to her. He was not what she was expected: "Tall, thin, blue eyes, blond with long curly hair, so neat looking"

Shania is not physically spontaneous -"I'm not a huggy-touchy person...." -but the moment she saw him, she ran straight over and hugged him, enveloping him in a cloak of her arms as if she had recognized the missing part of her soul and was not prepared to let it go again ever.

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Shania has said repeatedly, "We were meant to be together, " but the actual moment of revelation came one day in Spain. "We just hugged. We'd hugged before. I mean goodbye, at the airport. But that time we didn't let go for the longest time. It was so intensive I thought: "I really don't want to let go of this person." At that moment we knew we had a lot to talk about".


[more to follow]

[cbspock]

Shania singing to Mutt on the phone...

"The way you're singing right now," he said, "even though it is over the phone, that's the voice I've heard bits and peices of. That's how you should be sounding all the time. If you're doing your own stuff, you'll be able to get that".

-Eggar Book, page 199.


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Mary Bailey on Shania and Mutt working together...

"Having a proven producer with an unbelievable track record, who's expressed interest in a new talent, absolutely brought credibility to the team. I was very comfortable with Eilleen being with him., knowing that they started writing with a purpose, a purpose of an album. As a manager I'm totally going to support that. Number two, it allowed her the opportunity of being relaxed and finally having someone who was on the same wavelength. For me it was finding someone who believed in her as much as I did"

===

TWIM...Luke Lewis.... (note: Harold is the one that found Toby)

"Harold didn't want to do the album, I mean at all", says Luke, "didn't want to sign off on the budget. I was working in this precarious position with him with my bosses trying to keep the peace with each other. We were at each other's throats, we had completely different philosophies. Not to slight Harold, but he didn't get Shania."


Mutt makes Luke a deal that he couldn't refuse.....

"Mutt would cover everything over 200,000 dollars", says Lewis. Him and Her -she was definitely involved -made a righteous move and took me out of the line of fire politcally, allowed them to do it, and spoke to their own belief in what they were doing"


Paul Leim (session musician on all 3 shania albums):
Mutt Lange studies whatever he's going to go after," he grins. "He was coming to into town for the first time, and he knew every musician he wanted, just like the notes he wanted and the licks he heard. This was like a bank robbery, planned from the very beginning. He came to Nashville, robbed the bank and took all the money. It was great". hehe hehe

[corran]

I imagine it must of been great Chris...Because it is still continuing until this day...Country is doing everything they can to shut out Shania but her popularity is just too much...As they say singing is not so much about genre's as about winning the hearts and minds of the audience...I can imagine that Shania has captured her share of devoted followers...You can see it on the internet everyday...But Country continues to bury their head in the sand and so does the media for that matter...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

From Eggar page 251...

"Mutt thinks more along the line of production that I do. When we're writing a song, we might throw ideas out. I might say "This would be great with a fiddle", or he will say "This is the type of guitar sound we should go for on this song." We'll talk through stuff like that during the songwriting process, but it isn't until you get in the studio that you start experimenting with it. You don't always know what your best points are and what your weak points are. Its hard for a singer to be objective about herself. A good producer knows what those elements are. I know what sound I want, but he's the producer. I don't go into the studio to tweak the guitar sound for ten hours. I can't even be interested in that, but I can tell him creatively what I want" -Shania


Guess we know who the boss is..lol hehe hehe


Mercury's Retta Harvey talks about Shania and her videos....page 256...


"In the early days she always had a say in how she looked in terms of clothing and hairstyle and make-up. And it just got progressively more so, because she knew who she was, and how she wanted to be presented as a performer. Now when we do videos, she's pretty much running the show, she's figuring out who she wants. She's calling the directors, she's dealing with the ideas with them directly, and I'm basically here to make sure it's all taken care of, financially and contractually. I handle all the nightmare phone calls."


Here is something interesting.....
The average video budget is 350,000-450,000. Half the cost of each video is recoupable against her royalties, the other half is considered a company marketing expense.

and with that....

"Shania knows half of it is HER MONEY, she wants to get it right and she is a perfectionist, so she's going to do it till it's done" She's a trouper. We've shot 22 hour, 23 hours. because she wants to make sure it's done properly."

[cbspock]

Helene tells some funny stories...page 284

Watching the two working together ofthen makes Helene laugh, for in Mutt, Shania has finally met her match. "Mutt is more of a perfectionist than her," she says. "Sometimes he'll make her start, and start, and start, and she'll say. "It's good enough, it's OK." He just goes "No, it's not" hehe hehe


....

okay, the other story I'll save for tomorrow.


-Chris

[Jud]

Which edition are the quotes from?

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
From Eggar page 251...


Guess we know who the boss is..lol hehe hehe




No doubts there Chris...Shania is always in control of her music...I am just saying that Mutt adds to it...But we will never know how much he impacts on her music...But they are both perfectionists and are really caring people I have no doubts that Shania and Mutt both will produce enduring and beautifull music together...I know that Shania is in charge but I regard Shania and Mutt as a music team for the most part, Shania producing the Lyrics and music...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Jud
Which edition are the quotes from?

The first edition.


-Chris

[GonnaGetcha720]

I don't know if this has already been posted in this thread, but this was said by rock goddess Melissa Etheridge:

I remember being on the road in the early '90's, getting on the bus with the guys in my band, and them talking about Shania Tawin. This is the beginning, in country music, of the babe factor really coming in. With talent and looks, forget it. You're there; you rule the world.

~Melissa Etheridge (on Shania)


NOTE: This was found on the Team Shania website.

[Jud]

Originally posted by cbspock
From Eggar page 251...

"Mutt thinks more along the line of production that I do. When we're writing a song, we might throw ideas out. I might say "This would be great with a fiddle", or he will say "This is the type of guitar sound we should go for on this song." We'll talk through stuff like that during the songwriting process, but it isn't until you get in the studio that you start experimenting with it. You don't always know what your best points are and what your weak points are. Its hard for a singer to be objective about herself. A good producer knows what those elements are. I know what sound I want, but he's the producer. I don't go into the studio to tweak the guitar sound for ten hours. I can't even be interested in that, but I can tell him creatively what I want" -Shania


Guess we know who the boss is..lol hehe hehe


Mercury's Retta Harvey talks about Shania and her videos....page 256...


"In the early days she always had a say in how she looked in terms of clothing and hairstyle and make-up. And it just got progressively more so, because she knew who she was, and how she wanted to be presented as a performer. Now when we do videos, she's pretty much running the show, she's figuring out who she wants. She's calling the directors, she's dealing with the ideas with them directly, and I'm basically here to make sure it's all taken care of, financially and contractually. I handle all the nightmare phone calls."


Here is something interesting.....
The average video budget is 350,000-450,000. Half the cost of each video is recoupable against her royalties, the other half is considered a company marketing expense.

and with that....

"Shania knows half of it is HER MONEY, she wants to get it right and she is a perfectionist, so she's going to do it till it's done" She's a trouper. We've shot 22 hour, 23 hours. because she wants to make sure it's done properly."

I think, these were left out of the second edition?

[cbspock]

The second edition has added material. I don't think things were removed.


-Chris

[corran]

Interesting I don't recall reading that Jud and Chris...But I welcome the input of new info on Shania...Yes I do believe that is how it is for the most part for Shania...Being with Mutt I am quite sure initially had to be a learning experience for her, but now I imagine that Shania does indeed call the shots or is in control for the most part with Mutt only refining it a bit here and there or suggesting but few changes where he thinks they may be needed leaving Shania to be the final judge on his input...It goes to show you how two creative artists can work together which is rare today, because egos can have a tendency to get in the way...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

I'll have more tomorrow.


-Chris

[Jud]

Originally posted by cbspock
The second edition has added material. I don't think things were removed.


-Chris

I don't remember reading these quotes in the book, and I have the second edition only.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Jud
I don't remember reading these quotes in the book, and I have the second edition only.


I have both, I will take a look.


-Chris

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
I have both, I will take a look.


-Chris

Thanks Chris! I am rather curious also...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

More fun stories.....

Page 286 1st Edition Eggar Book....


In the early days, (COO Tour) when Shania came back from a promotional trip, Mutt needed to know everything that happened. She just wanted to go for a walk, smell the roses, anything but go over the details once more. "He gets frustrated, because he is interested, " she said "Sometimes if can be difficult. He's so involved he wants things to be so great for me. Sometimes I can't escape the intensity of it, he wants me to be great all the time. I can feel theat pressure. I am very hard on myself and don't get to escape that when I'm with him. Sometimes I just don't want him to care about my career, but it's impossible, because he is such a part of it." She made a rule never to talk business over dinner or in bed and teased him, "I have great management. Call them." He did, called Landau and Lewis, asking questions while she was lying next to him.

.....


"He loves fashion and likes to keep up with the latest of everything, he's very into the aesthetic of things, which is real fun for a girl when we're shopping."


.....


Page 189 (this is like from 1999-2000)

"Ever since I met Mutt, ever since I got married, I don't feel the need to struggle any more," she says "A lot of the fight is gone. I find it hard to keep myself going. Sometimes I get so fluffy and emotional I don't like this person, it isn't me. I guess it is better to be sensitive than not to be. I am so much more aware of people around me, of things going on."


----

Shania's horses names: (@1999)
Tango, Dancer, Shadow, Thunder, Big Chief



-Chris

[cbspock]

Page 290 1st Edition...

Because they want nothing more of her than her attention, Shania can be more herself with childern. She does not care if they are sick, dying even, but engages with them on their level, asks all kinds of questions. "She is wonderful with kids, " says Helene, "I see her with her nephews and nieces and she'll be with them hours, playing any game they want her to play, she's really good with that." Kids were attracted to her even before she became a star. She used to babysit here, and the kids just loved her. I don't know if it's that beautiful face she's got or her smile, kids would just automatically go to her....they need to touch her, they need to talk to her, it's always been that way".


------

Famous last words.......

"I'd like to have a child". she said in 1999, "Mutt is open to the idea. He is not rushing to have one, but at the same time he doesn't want me to get to a point in my life where I then regret not having one. I'd like to have children....but when I don't know, we'll play that by ear"......That time came sooner than most of her friends expected. The process of recording her fourth album proved very fertile. She told her close family the good news over Christmas, and it was officially announced in March 2001.


-------


-Chris

[resessions]

Originally posted by cbspock

Shania's horses names: (@1999)
Tango, Dancer, Shadow, Thunder, Big Chief

-Chris


Hmmm... "Shadow" & "Dancer" so I guess if Tom joins the Shadow Dancer for a performance in August he'll have to be known as "Big Chief Thunder Tango" :hyst:

[cbspock]

One more for tonight, coming up next post!


I really think I need to read the second edition, so many new things that were not in the first edition.



-Chris

[cbspock]

Page 382 Second Edition:

This was around 1999-2000


There were times in the early days of their marriage when the gossips insisted she had only married him as a career move. If that were ever true, the doubts are long gone, for Mutt has a unique ability to make people love him. One of Shania's most treasured possessions is the rough draft of their wedding vows complete with all their scribbles. "I've kept the draft and I've kept the actual vows, " she laughs...... what they shared was more than physical love. "A lot of the time," she said, "it's true, he's not there and I'm not there. But the largest chunks of time we've been apart are over. I will never leave home for such a great length of time again, it's my reward. I don't want to do that anymore. The key for him and me is that we share something so intimate and so unqiue in our music. It is something we're always going to have, it's not ever going to go away. It's not like a relationship where what we have most in common is our love of tennis and if one of us decided they don't like tennis, there goes the relationship."

[cbspock]

Page 394 second edition.....


"With this new little thing there is so much more love in our family now. He has so much love. He is just like Mutt. Mutt is so loving. I'm not like that," she says, "I'm a giving person but I'm just such an independent entity that I'm not as easy to reach all the time. I don't reach out often but Mutt and Eja are both very open, loving and warm. They're good for me, both of them. Good for my soul."

"I have been unwinding myself ever since I met Mutt. I am trying to be a better person. I really am because there is no point in being anything else. The only thing that gets you through is to approach everything with a light and loving heart. Nothing else works. No matter what **** life throws you, if you cannot take it graciously it will only hurt you more".


--------------

On the making of Up! Page 397

During the early stages rumours flew around that the whole record was being recorded using machines and Pro Tools. While Mutt was assisted by two expert programmers and editors, the Churko brothers from Saskatoon, it was always his intension to use living breathing players.

"Mutt doesn't like machines when he can use musicians, " says Shania. "We used a lot of different musicians on the record, many more than usual."

.....

"We didn't focus too strongly on the lyrics until closer to the end because I wanted the songs to be fresh, to reflect what I was currently thinking and feeling"

.....


-Chris

[cbspock]

Page 394 second edition.....


"With this new little thing there is so much more love in our family now. He has so much love. He is just like Mutt. Mutt is so loving. I'm not like that," she says, "I'm a giving person but I'm just such an independent entity that I'm not as easy to reach all the time. I don't reach out often but Mutt and Eja are both very open, loving and warm. They're good for me, both of them. Good for my soul."

"I have been unwinding myself ever since I met Mutt. I am trying to be a better person. I really am because there is no point in being anything else. The only thing that gets you through is to approach everything with a light and loving heart. Nothing else works. No matter what **** life throws you, if you cannot take it graciously it will only hurt you more".


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On the making of Up! Page 397

During the early stages rumours flew around that the whole record was being recorded using machines and Pro Tools. While Mutt was assisted by two expert programmers and editors, the Churko brothers from Saskatoon, it was always his intension to use living breathing players.

"Mutt doesn't like machines when he can use musicians, " says Shania. "We used a lot of different musicians on the record, many more than usual."

.....

"We didn't focus too strongly on the lyrics until closer to the end because I wanted the songs to be fresh, to reflect what I was currently thinking and feeling"

.....


-Chris

[cbspock]

I found the "oh honey" fights from the making of TWIM. That story coming up next..lol hehe hehe


-Chris

[cbspock]

The making of TWIM.....

...While it was the Mutt Lange Show, Shania had a tremendous amount of input, she was in the studio all day every day, six days a week. There was no antsy behavior, no dissappearing off shopping or hanging around doing her make-up. She sang every pass every time, giving full on guide vocals to every backing track. He treated her the same as every other musician, except occasionally when they got into arguements over vocal parts.

"I think you ought to sing it like this. " said Mutt, to which she might reply, "Yes, but I feel that if the words are more intimate I ought to be more like this" Then they would start what Leim calls this "Oh, honey thing... with Mutt saying "Well, honey, I think it out to be, " or Sweetkins, I think it out to be". and "Sugar baby, why don't you try it like...." Mutt is very demanding at what he wants, but in such a gentlemanly fashion, you can't get mad at him".


Shania paints with words and melodies, Mutt paints with sound.

--------------


Interesting, that back in 1995, Lewis was also seen as an outsider by Music Row.

----------

Only Mutt could get away with calling Shania "sweetkins" lol hehe hehe :hyst:



-Chris

[Jud]

Thanks Chris, great read!

Did you find those quotes in the second edition yet?

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Jud
Thanks Chris, great read!

Did you find those quotes in the second edition yet?


I found the section of the book. The quotes are intact with new information from the last interview he did with Shania.

Check out page 340 in the second edition, there is the info about the videos.

-Chris

[Jud]

Thanks, now I find'em all.

It's easy to read a book, when somone else turning the pages fpr you:p

[cbspock]

The grind of the COO tour, and media interviews takes its toll on our favorite star......


:( :( :(

Second edtion, page 353

Once a day, Helene and Shania sat down to go through the stacks of requests that had built up. "She'd do interviews, a whole ton of things, unbelievable, nobody knows what a star has to do. Some days I would just look at her and I'd say. "Why do you bother going through all this?" On the day of the show she would do a sound checkat 5pm. Then she would have to get made up to do television interviews, sometimes as many as five. There were nights when it all got too much and she said "Helene, I don't want to do this," and vented her frustration". The meditation techniques that Mutt uses have never been so effective for Shania. She is too impatient when things do not happen easily or the way she wants them to.

------

A funny Luke and Shania story up next.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Jud
Thanks, now I find'em all.

It's easy to read a book, when somone else turning the pages fpr you:p


I really have to read the 2nd edition all the way through. I only read the new parts when I first got it. I loved the 1st edition a lot. There is so much info in the books. Great interviews, and it gives you a great understanding of the garbage Shania has to put up with.


-Chris

[cbspock]

Early in 1999, Shania and Luke were getting into their stretch limo following an awards show in Canada. She was wearing a sheath dress so tight that she could barely move her legs, let alone walk in it. Luke let her in first, and as she went to site down, the leather seats and the slick dress material combined to create perpetual motion. She scooted the length of the car and landed flat on her backside. Luke's immediate reaction was to crack up laughing. Mid howl he checked himself for he realized this had become a defining moment. How would Shania react? There comes a point at which a star turns into a prima donna, diva into demon. To them such things are not funny. Not funny at all.

Shania lay in the back of the limo, legs akimbo, in a most undignified heap...and roared with laughter. "What I am living right now is probably the lightest time in my whole life, " she has said "I don't take myself too seriously but I take my music too seriously. I never have lived a normal life, I never will, I guess."


:hyst:

2nd edition p.377


-Chris

[corran]

Thats the first time I saw the making of Twim passage and I thought the last quote was quite funny...I am glad Shania has a good sense of humor....

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

From the interview "portrait of a lady"....

CSR:How would you like to be remembered?

Shania:As a songwriter, without a doubt. It's a timeless thing. My dream, actually from a very young child, was never to be a star. I was much happier to be in the background, to be honest with you. I was really a closet songwriter for a long time until my mother forced me to play her music. It's more personal to me. Being a star is a fleeting thing. Being a songwriter is forever, even if it's just for myself.



More tonight!


-Chris

[Jud]

Originally posted by cbspock
Page 394 second edition.....



"Mutt doesn't like machines when he can use musicians, " says Shania. "We used a lot of different musicians on the record, many more than usual."


- Chris

Except his beloved drumm-mashies:rolleyes:

I wish he would give up this bad habit, it's annoying, even in Don't!

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Jud
Except his beloved drumm-mashies:rolleyes:

I wish he would give up this bad habit, it's annoying, even in Don't!


LOL!!!



-Chris

[cbspock]

American Way Magazine, 2003....

"I was engaged in Paris. Mutt was actually recording there with Bryan Adams. He said, "Why don't you come with me to Paris when I do this?" We'll be working in the studio. I'm not going to have time to be with you very much. I want you to be able to enjoy Paris, so I want to invite your sisters along". He wanted them to be there for that moment. I brought my own engagement ring with me and didn't even know it. He just said, "Listen, somone's going to bring you a small package. There's a video in there that I've got to see. Could you bring it with you when you come to Paris? And don't lose it!" I said, "Okay. sure", and I put this package in my luggage. I had no idea I was bringing my own ring over. We were in a hotel just off the Champs-Eysees. It was 3 o'clock in the morning and he had just come back from the studio. I was still awake and he proposed to me then. Paris is a city of romance! There's something dreamy and surreal about the fact I was engaged in Paris on my first trip there. It made it very special". -Shania



-Chris

[corran]

Chris

Mutt picked the best place to propose to Shania, Paris and bringing along her sisters was a nice touch...I imagine that is especially true for Canadians...Just to be able to visit Paris must have been a dream come true for Shania...I can just imagine what it was like for her to be in Europe for the very first time...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

According to the book, Shania didn't even know what the Concorde was. hehe hehe hehe hehe


-Chris

[jan b]

Thanks for all the quotes Chris, I've not read the book so please feel free to carry on with some more:)

[cbspock]

Originally posted by jan b
Thanks for all the quotes Chris, I've not read the book so please feel free to carry on with some more:)


It is a good book, although I thought in two parts of it he depended on tabliod stories for "reference".


-Chris

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
According to the book, Shania didn't even know what the Concorde was. hehe hehe hehe hehe


-Chris

I bet Shania was impressed by how fast she got to Paris...Mutt must have really wanted to impress Shania on how special she is...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

More fun quotes and stories to follow...



-Chris

[Esther]

a bit of a late response, but I wanna say:

Thanks Chris for posting all those quotes!!! It's great to read them... :Bthumb

[cbspock]

If the Shania horse show story is short enough, I will post that next. Just imagine a 10 year old Shania and her best buddy entering an old worn out horse in a local horse show..lol



-Chris

[Esther]

lol hehe that would be great! ;) hehe

[jan b]

I'm looking forward to it:)

[corran]

Don't forget me there Chris...I be forever interested in stories about Shania...Jeesh...I am already missing Shania that much...

Benjamin:)

[Allison]

"I'm a vegatarian, Brad.
I eat tofu tuna."

[resessions]

Originally posted by Allison
"I'm a vegatarian, Brad.
I eat tofu tuna."

LOL.. I didn't know you are a vegetarian Allison...No wonder you did have any of the chicken wings I bought in Sault Saint Marie on our way home from Timmins last November !!! :)

I lived in Japan for over two years and learned to enjoy using tofu in cooking and different soups. Once you get used to preparing it in ways that are palatable, it's a great source of nutrition.

Speaking of Tuna...I grew to really love raw Tuna...a taste also acquired while living in Japan more than 28 years ago. :drool:

[Allison]

Originally posted by resessions
LOL.. I didn't know you are a vegetarian Allison...No wonder you did have any of the chicken wings I bought in Sault Saint Marie on our way home from Timmins last November !!! :)

I lived in Japan for over two years and learned to enjoy using tofu in cooking and different soups. Once you get used to preparing it in ways that are palatable, it's a great source of nutrition.

Speaking of Tuna...I grew to really love raw Tuna...a taste also acquired while living in Japan more than 28 years ago. :drool:

LOL!!! :hyst: Sorry Richard, I'm not really a vegatarian, though I do enjoy tofu more than I do tuna.

That quote was actually from Shania in I Heart Huckabees. I just forgot to add that to my post. It's hard to explain the storyline because it was such a...strange movie. Kinda in the "it was so stupid it was funny" category. Very hard to get into to.


Allison

[Alanb]

Originally posted by resessions

Speaking of Tuna...I grew to really love raw Tuna...a taste also acquired while living in Japan more than 28 years ago. :drool:

Tuna's fine Richard, especially a nice Tuna steak, but when it comes to Sushi, I actually prefer the white fishes like Red Snapper, Fluke, Maidai, Talapia, Sea Trout and such. Mind you I actually prefer Sashimi over Sushi.

[cbspock]

Well, it looks like its time to get this thread back on track with another story / quote....


From country song round up "Portrait of a Lady"

CSR:So the songs we hear on your records are real emotions experienced to some degree by you. Doesn't that make you vulnerable?

ST: "If I left them as intense as they first were when I wrote them, then yes, I would be very vulnerable. But until they get to a point where they are a song, then no one ever hears them. The music that I do make available and commercial is for the sake of sharing it with people who I want to relate to. I tend to express myself through my music. The subjects I write about are things that I can relate to. The subjects are always things that I can relate to fairly directly and feel very strongly about.

There are times when I really look forward to just writing songs for a living. And the day will come. Songwriting is my favorite part of what I do. I'm sure I won't be a star forever. And I won't be a performing artist forever and yes, I will actually indulge in the song writing aspect of it. When you write for yourself as the artist, you write for your own voice, but I want to write things that aren't for my own voice. I feel very limited by my voice because I'm of a certain style."

[cbspock]

same interview....

Shania on being a role model.....

"If anything, it's a little bit of a burden because it's not what you originally set out to do. It's not like you want this obligation. Writing music and being an artist, you know, you don't do that so you can have the added responsibility of them being a role model and maintaining some sort of model existence. But if it happens to you then I feel you do have the responsibility and you just have to deal with it. I'm a clean living person. It's not like I have a problem with it. It's not like I have to hide anything. A burden isn't the right word; I wouldn't consider it a burden for me but it is an extra responsibility.

[cbspock]

same interview.....

CSR: You have not only been embraced by the country music audience but the pop audience as well.....

ST: I love that! I love it for the music and for myself. I grew up having the opportunity to listen to all the best of all the genres on the radio because I grew up in a town with only one radio station. And that is the way I've always seen music. I've never really felt the necessity to differentiate from one genre to the next. So I love all kinds of music, and it pleases me a great deal to be able to access all the different fans. It's wonderful to me to not be restricted artistically.

[jan b]

thank you for posting Chris:)

[cbspock]

"Forever and For Always' is the most relatable to my personal life," whoever is relating to that song is very content, very comfortable with the person in their life, and that's how I feel."
- Shania's views on "Forever and for Always"



"It's become such a special relationship, I don't even know how to put it into words, but every day we both count our blessings. We are such a great pair in every way -- as husband and wife, as friends, as musical partners. We are each other's inspiration and we just live for each other."
- Shania talking about her relationship with Mutt



"It's just what I feel like now," she smiles. "I'm very happy with myself, and with who I am as a person. That's something money cannot buy."
- Shania about how she feels since her return

[corran]

I have to agree with Shania it is not something that money can buy...It is a matter of attitude, of love and devotion...If two people get together they can nearly always make it work with determination and most importantly with a plan...But it takes two to make it work...

Benjamin:)

[Winterisgreat]

-----ST: "If I left them as intense as they first were when I wrote them, then yes, I would be very vulnerable. But until they get to a point where they are a song, then no one ever hears them. The music that I do make available and commercial is for the sake of sharing it with people who I want to relate to. I tend to express myself through my music. The subjects I write about are things that I can relate to. The subjects are always things that I can relate to fairly directly and feel very strongly about.

There are times when I really look forward to just writing songs for a living. And the day will come. Songwriting is my favorite part of what I do. I'm sure I won't be a star forever. And I won't be a performing artist forever and yes, I will actually indulge in the song writing aspect of it. When you write for yourself as the artist, you write for your own voice, but I want to write things that aren't for my own voice. I feel very limited by my voice because I'm of a certain style."

This is one of my favorite quotes. I have noticed the majority of Shania Twain's songs have the same theme and sometimes beat, but hey- I am happy and THRILLED and it works for her! She is my all-time favorite singer. Just words can't describe her and all of what I am saying is an understatement! WE LOVE YOU, SHANIA!

To everyone, THANKS for all the AMAZING AND INSPIRITATIONAL QUOTES!!! PLEASE keep them coming. I've learned so much.

I'll be sure to request "Don't!" this weekend. I LOVE THAT SONG!!! LOVE IT TO DEATH! I'll even request "Party For Two" while I'm at it.

[cbspock]

Here are two stories from her high school days...

Page 101 of the Eggar 2nd edition.....


This first story still describes Shania today......

Once she relaxed, Eilleen was a chatterbox like her mom. She was, as Rick recalls, great company. "There are some people that shine pretty bright and some that are pretty dim. She was always a lot more shiny than the rest of us. She loved to know exactly what was going on around her. If she started laughing, that was it, the whole room cracked up. She's got one of those infectious laughs and she loved to use it. She was an absolute howl. When she wanted to start speaking, she'd get all excited, go at a million miles an hour. She had a joie de vivre. She was passionate and enthusiastic about things.




Maybe this is where "beer tastes like ear wax" comes from....

"She was one of the boys. One time, when she was about seventeen she insisted she wanted to party with us. "Come on, let's go over to Brian's place and hace a couple of beers." We were seasoned Northern Ontario beer drinkers at that point. She came over. She was always slight and skinny, well proportioned and gorgous, a great looking girl but always a mate to us. Anyway, she had a couple of beers and that was it....she passed right out. She could not handle it at all. I tried to carry her, she must have weighed next to nothing, but she was a dead weight, and I could not get her off the ground. :hyst:

[Cheryl]

I really liked reading that last story, Chris in the book! When I was reading it, I had a laugh, but I think it is so cute!!:D I really enjoy listening to Shania when she talks about something or someone is interviewing her because even though she is beautiful, she has that childlike face and that smile and she is so cute when she makes all those expressions!!!:)

[corran]

Originally posted by Cheryl
I really liked reading that last story, Chris in the book! When I was reading it, I had a laugh, but I think it is so cute!!:D I really enjoy listening to Shania when she talks about something or someone is interviewing her because even though she is beautiful, she has that childlike face and that smile and she is so cute when she makes all those expressions!!!:)

Cheryl

I know what you are talking about you could see the child like joy in her face when she was being interviewed on CMT top 20 countdown...Shania was actually having fun there seeing what fans love about her...

Benjamin:)

[ojibiwanqueenst]

Shania Twain on the audiences in Europe: "The audiences, I think, have been quite similar all around the world. I have to say that the American audiences are just louder. We did our first show back after this break two nights ago and it was ear piercing. So I think that's probably the biggest difference. The North American audiences are just so much more vocal. They're crazy!"

:BL

[cbspock]

Originally posted by ojibiwanqueenst
Shania Twain on the audiences in Europe: "The audiences, I think, have been quite similar all around the world. I have to say that the American audiences are just louder. We did our first show back after this break two nights ago and it was ear piercing. So I think that's probably the biggest difference. The North American audiences are just so much more vocal. They're crazy!"

:BL


Especially when she sees the same people showing up from city to city..lol hehe hehe hehe



-Chris

[corran]

Can't wait for her tours to start again...Proabably won't be until sometime next year maybe...

Benjamin:)

[Cheryl]

That's so true, Chris!!:D I also can't wait for her to tour again!!!:)

[jen]

Originally posted by cbspock
Here are two stories from her high school days...

Page 101 of the Eggar 2nd edition.....


This first story still describes Shania today......

Once she relaxed, Eilleen was a chatterbox like her mom. She was, as Rick recalls, great company. "There are some people that shine pretty bright and some that are pretty dim. She was always a lot more shiny than the rest of us. She loved to know exactly what was going on around her. If she started laughing, that was it, the whole room cracked up. She's got one of those infectious laughs and she loved to use it. She was an absolute howl. When she wanted to start speaking, she'd get all excited, go at a million miles an hour. She had a joie de vivre. She was passionate and enthusiastic about things.






HAHAHA, yeah I love her laugh, when Shania laughs or smiles it makes me laugh or smile......that is a great gift to have:)

[jen]

This is one of my favorite quotes


"Music is for our lives, it is something we live with and live by......I can write a song but you can interpret it any way you want and its yours! It's personal, it's yours to have and we give that and I guess that is probably what we get back the most, the fact that other people make it their own and that means so much"

-Shania Twain(Oprah After Show)

[cbspock]

That quote should go in the legacy thread too.



-Chris

[Cheryl]

She is so right about that and I agree, Chris!!:BigLove

[Jud]

1 - A reaction to Shania's ETOY acception speech, when she asked to look for Dolly

From poverty that has crushed many a mortal, Parton hustled herself into the hearts of millions worldwide, many of whom probably couldn't name more than two or three of her songs. Shania Twain made it clear, in her acceptance speech for CMA Entertainer of the Year, that meeting Parton was the first thing on her mind.

Did she? Parton answers with a laugh that opens the windows. "Oh no! I left as soon as I finished the song with Vince [Gill] because I wasn't one of the last ones. I was tryin' to get out of the traffic so as soon as I finished the song we just got right in the car and left and so it was only when I got home I was watchin' the news coverage -- my husband [of 33 years, Carl Dean] had the TV on -- and they had her on and her speech where she'd won Entertainer of the Year and I saw her say that and I thought AWWW!

"Cuz I could kill myself because if I'd have known she wanted to meet me I would have definitely [stayed behind], but I did send her a telegram the next day and congratulate her and I told her I was so sorry and flattered that she had mentioned my name and not only did I hope that we'd meet but we'd get a chance to visit and be friends and maybe even write or sing something together. I just think she's precious and I think she's just absolutely beautiful and I was so honored. I watched it here on the local news here and I thought, 'Wow!' I couldn't believe she's talkin' about me at a time when she's just won her big award. I thought, 'Wow!' What a nice compliment!"

2. About her and country industry - and what she has to do. In many ways, it can related to Shania's link to the country industry, and to what should be the guide lines:

"But -- I already know, now, that country music does not want me anymore, as far as an artist. Because I've tried very very hard for several years now to be true to what I thought people thought I should be true to, and that didn't work either. So I've found that as always in my own life, I'd best to do what I feel right about at the time. That always works best for me. At least I will find true personal happiness and true personal and creative fulfillment if I just do what I do and have the freedom to do it."

Source for both of them, a very long, but very interesting interview/article with/about Dolly:
http://www.nodepression.net/archive/nd24/features/dolly.html

[chicker]

Thanks Jud, that first one sure is amazing and she has got it spot on when she says that Shania is 'Precious and absolutely beautiful' :BigLove

You can just imagine how elated Shania would have been when she heard/read those comments from her idol :hugs:

[cbspock]

"Animals make a wonderful gift. Don't love them and leave them and they will love you unconditionally forever and for always."- Shania talking about pets

[cbspock]

Shania on Eja going into the Music Business....


.....Because of their own intense involvement in the industry, will Twain and Lange be tempted to push their own son towards a show biz career? "Personally, I think it's a very tough road," Twain said. "I think the chances are against anybody trying to get into the industry. "Supporting a child who doesn't have the passion on their own won't get them anywhere. I don't care how much support you put behind them, or how much money. If he's got the passion and the drive, then I will support him along the way, but I won't be the one driving it." Twain seemed slightly emotional when asked about her son's career choices - as if she was recollecting her own lifetime of hard work on stage. She paused before finishing her answer, then said: "I hope he does something else with his mind, actually, to be honest with you."

(I don't recall the exact interview this is from)

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
"Animals make a wonderful gift. Don't love them and leave them and they will love you unconditionally forever and for always."- Shania talking about pets


Shania is absolutely correct in saying that Chris...I know that to be true...As for Eja, I think that Shania will let Eja choose his own path as we all must...Of course she will support him in whatever choice he chooses...But it will certainly be interesting on what path he takes as both Mutt and Shania are musically inclined and I can imagine that Eja will be greatly influenced by both his Mom and Father...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

Jimmy Carter, Music Critic on Shania...


Jimmy Carter, a well known and respected TV, Radio and now a columnist recently commented on Shania and her treatment by the CMA: "The snubbing of Shania: Again no nominations and if the CMA voters don’t think she has one of the top five shows of the year then fine. It’s their view. But, what a major hypocrisy, if in the same breath you announce she is the first performer invited to perform. The Music Row bosses and voters will use Shania to get a show rating but will not show her the respect of even a nomination.
In the words of the Riders in the Sky, It’s not the cowboy way!"


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Shania is out, but Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow are in? Where is the consistency? Faith is out, too, and that is even harder to believe. Tim and Faith are such darlings of the industry I thought they might be able to get away with anything!

I like Rascal Flatts, but are they any more country than Keith Urban and Shania? No consistency.

Awards are for bragging rights. They help sell CDs. Nothing more, nothing less. Bob Hope, Elvis and the Beatles never won many industry awards in their day. Add John Wayne to that list. Industry people, whether they are movie or music sometimes get jealous at mega-success. Or so it does seem.

[sas]

A goodie from Acc top 40 tonight....

ANNOUNCER: Well she set the records and then disappeared for a while....Dramatic entrances and exits are second nature to Shania Twain ... she has been performing since she was a child ... High energy is a LOW estimate of Shania's music and stage shows but she does have a quiet side and that came to light when we asked her recently to describe a perfect day off.....

SHANIA: well I enjoy getting a massage that would be luxurious---I enjoy being with horses so that would be ---I'm like a kid in a candy store if I'm around horses for the day...----hummm and just doing laid back things ... yeah a day of luxury would be reading just a day to read or a day in a book store that would be really fun----- I love spending time of course with my SON --- kicking the ball around...swimming and just doing kids stuff thats REALLY GREAT FUN!... ( you can hear the light in her voice when she talks Eja)
:BigLove

[cbspock]

:GL


-Chris

[corran]

I imagine that Shania is spending a lot of time down in New Zealand trying to set up her new home and ranch there just riding with her son Eja, taking advantage of the final moments before he finally has to go off to school...And also think that Shania be sending him to school in Switzerland or in New Zealand...If I had to guess I would say it would be in Switzerland...My guess is that Shania and Mutt are trying to turn their ranch in New Zealand as a Summer vacation home...Their primary residence will still remain in Switzerland because of Eja and also because that is where their music studios are at...Hopefully Shania will do a few song video's amongst her new home in New Zealand....

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

"Question: How does the writing process today compare to, say, 30 years ago?

Loretta Lynn: I heard Shania say on TV, "When I came to Nashville, they threw us in a room with four or five writers and wanted us to write from 9 to 5." She said, "I'm not used to that. I'm used to writing my own songs." And I said, "All right, Shania, you just got a taste of what I got a whole meal of."

[Steve F]

Originally posted by cbspock
"Question: How does the writing process today compare to, say, 30 years ago?

Loretta Lynn: I heard Shania say on TV, "When I came to Nashville, they threw us in a room with four or five writers and wanted us to write from 9 to 5." She said, "I'm not used to that. I'm used to writing my own songs." And I said, "All right, Shania, you just got a taste of what I got a whole meal of."

This is an example of the real-life things that go on behind the scenes of a music performer as opposed to what they would like you to believe, i.e., you come to Nashville with a dream and everyone takes you in under their wing and the world is yours.:rolleyes:

Steve

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Steve F
This is an example of the real-life things that go on behind the scenes of a music performer as opposed to what they would like you to believe, i.e., you come to Nashville with a dream and everyone takes you in under their wing and the world is yours.:rolleyes:

Steve


and when you get too successful they stab you in the back..lol


-Chris

[cbspock]

CMT: The face of country has changed a lot since you’ve been gone. There’s a whole resurgence of bluegrass. Do you think that your music is still going to be able to fit in with this new face?

Twain: I don’t know, I mean … I have no idea. I never try to fit into any specific place. When I’m making my music, I actually stop listening to everything that’s going on. I don’t want to know what’s going on. I’m not trying to fit in. I’m not trying to be like everybody else. I have my own space. I’m my own thing, and whether the listeners want that or not -- that I can never know. How can I know that? I could be more sure and pay close attention to what everyone else is doing and try to follow, but I’m not a follower. I want to set my own path, and I’d rather do that and take the risk.

[Cheryl]

That is a really good quote! Way to, Shania and good for you!!!:)

[DivaDewdHote]

well right now again, my life is goin on a roller coaster... I can only look UP!, I read the quotes, I read a few others off another website by a memeber on this one, I always turn to her words, my heart feels so much better.. Her music could be there, but the words are more real and just when I read it and I put two and two together with her songs.. I know I hope this time my life goes up up up up up up and stays up!

[cbspock]

"My mother lived for my career. We were extremely poor when I was a kid, and my mother had five children and no food to feed them. She knew I was talented, and she lived with the hope that my abilities were my chance to do something special."-Shania

[Debbie]

Originally posted by cbspock
"My mother lived for my career. We were extremely poor when I was a kid, and my mother had five children and no food to feed them. She knew I was talented, and she lived with the hope that my abilities were my chance to do something special."-Shania



And do something special she did!!! I believe her Mom would be sooooo proud of the special things that Eilleen has done with her talent!

[corran]

Originally posted by Debbie
And do something special she did!!! I believe her Mom would be sooooo proud of the special things that Eilleen has done with her talent!

Without a doubt Debbie...Wish both of her parents could have been around to witness her success...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

Found this these on the CMT board...

Shania on her personal finances.
Twain says she didn't feel fully comfortable in her relationship with Lange until she had achieved her own financial success. "There was no way I was going to enjoy life beyond my own personal means," she says. "He thought it was ridiculous. But I worked my butt off, and now I'm independent financially. I can help my family with my money, give to charity with my money."



According to Shania while talking about The Woman In Me Album:
“One of my favorites on the album—and this is a very vain statement—but I wrote this one by myself (laughs). This song is true country, it’s the real thing, and you don’t hear much of it anymore. It’s called ‘Leavin’s The Only Way Out,’ and it’s a very sad song.”


-Chris

[stwainfan]

I thought it would be nice to see quotes about Shania
here's a nice one :)

Reba McEntire Speaks About Shania
"I think the woman has got talent, I think she has balls to do what she has done, having a whole album out, that many singles to do that well, and then no tour; only Rosanne Cash has done that before. I am very proud of her, everyday I see the sound scan and she sold another week's worth of amzing sales, so more power to her in my book. Shania is one of the best voices to ever enter the musical field, we should all be blessed she is country. There has been a lot of controversy over her "midrif" so to say, but I think if you can do it, why not.

Once you reach a certain age of 44 you just can't do that anymore, let her enjoy it while she can, if it looks good and its not trashy, and tastefully done then it comes off great and Shania always has. Her sound is also a controversial issue, if thats what her heart tells her to do, then do it. If mine did, I would. Why hold someone down, to one musical style when she can succeed at anything? Let her fly. She is not what we call traditional, but she has brought millions of new fans to country, and eventually new fans to the rest of us.

A lot of times her personality is in question also, she comes off as a money driven b****, I can honestly say that Shania, is one of the best friends I have in and out of the industry, she called about 1 week ago, from England, to tell me how well she liked the new single, and we chit chatted for a while. Then i called not too long ago really and told her how well i liked "That Don't Impress Me Much" - another woman's anthem song - what we need more of. And then a lot of times, the reign of queen is called into question. She told me that she would never ever take the queen of country away, and that, in her eyes and millions more I would always be the queen, and each time when questioned in an interview if she considers herself queen of country she replies "No, Reba is the undisputable queen of country".

Recently at ACM's we met again, and had a pic together, and they did a caption on star, about teary eyed Reba has been dethroned by Shania. It was me and Shania and Faith, and Terri Clark on my jet, I thought she was ready to blow her top, when she saw the rag magazine. The real reason was because she told me how beautiful I looked, and about how the award show was ****** because netiher one of us won! I wasn't crying I had been laughing so hard - she is hilarious.

So you see Shania is not only a beautiful woman, a talented singer, a wonderful entertainer, she is a great friend. I will always defend her, she will always be one of my best girl friends. I count myself blessed that she is country, when she could easily sing anything she wanted to!!!!"

[FV]

I do not know whether this one was already posted:

"It's keeping it real lyrically - that's my approach," she says. "It is very conversational, which is very much the way the last two albums were written. Those were the songs people related to best. Saying things the way I would have spoken them. Writing is very much an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do."

From "Linedancer" No. 98 July 2004 p.27.

[cbspock]

Found this on CMT's messageboard...

A Shania Christmas Tree?????

According to Nashville Katt Shania told her that after she got out of high school, her dad put her to work in the bush and she became a foreman of a tree planting crew & Shania says every 5 years she goes back to one of her plantings & she can still look at a specific tree & remembers planting it.
So if you get a Christmas tree from Canada this year, it may be one of hers.


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[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
Found this on CMT's messageboard...

A Shania Christmas Tree?????

According to Nashville Katt Shania told her that after she got out of high school, her dad put her to work in the bush and she became a foreman of a tree planting crew & Shania says every 5 years she goes back to one of her plantings & she can still look at a specific tree & remembers planting it.
So if you get a Christmas tree from Canada this year, it may be one of hers.


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I got one of the acorns that fell from one her trees Chris...I have been thinking of planting it here in Maryland...And watch it grow...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

from the cmt msgboard...

According to Shania she is opposed to choreographed performances (for herself). "People can always expect a high-energy, intimate kind of party atmosphere show at any of my concerts. I never was a dancer or never felt comfortable with anything too fixed, contrived or choreographed because it's just not my style. I started so young in clubs, because I started at eight years old in clubs, so that was before people really got into the whole dance routine-type performance."

[jan b]

Thanks Chris for your posts :)

[corran]

I found this posted by Silversox on Carolyn Dawn Johnson and what she thinks of Shania. I did not know that Carolyn had met up with Shania at the very beginning and was an inspiration for her...There are two significant quotes by Carolyn on Shania...This was posted on CMT's message board...

SilverSox

04.22.2005
06:04 PM
Carolyn Dawn Johnson on Shania:

""It's easy to compare me to Shania because we're both Canadians and we're both females and we're both singer-songwriters, but that's about as far as it goes," says Johnson, who was born in Deadwood, Alta. "I'm proud that they're comparing me because I honestly think she's done something wonderful by just being who she is." "The scariest thing about it is having so much to live up to. I don't think anybody ever expected Shania to sell that many records and I don't think anyone will sell as many in a long, long time. That was just an unbelievable thing, and I'm not going to pass that. It's amazing they put me in that category because I don't even think I'm remotely there."
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SilverSox

04.22.2005
07:33 PM
RE: Carolyn Dawn Johnson on Shania:

.Canadian Carolyn Dawn Johnson says that Shania Twain inspired her before Shania became a huge star. Johnson met Shania in Canada back in 1995 at a press conference to promote Twain's newly released THE WOMAN IN ME album."She seemed very sweet and we all got to meet her. And I told her I was a singer and she signed my thing for me and I still have it and it says, 'Carolyn Dawn, good luck with your singing...Love, Shania Twain.' And 3 months later I came down to CRS [Country Radio Seminar, in Nashville] saw her in the bathroom and I said, 'I just met you in Vancouver' and she remembered, and that's the last time I've seen her. But it was cool because I got to meet her before she was huge and she was very sweet."

Benjamin:)

[tower]

I think Shania's fans have some great quotes too, take this one for example

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Originally posted by Steve F

The best Shania can do is keep doing what she does best.

Steve
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now that's a classic :)

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock (1 17 05)
So, should I keep adding quotes, or is no one interested??? I get the feeling no one is, since no one is replying to anything posted so far.

-Chris
Chris,

This is very interesting thread. The quotes about her philosophy and perspective make this one of the most significant threads I've read in this forum.

I've seen this thread before now. But I could see it had things that I wanted to sit down and absorb, rather than just hastily and superficially gloss over. I prefer to stop and smell the roses along the way. So if I can't do something right, I just wait until later, when I have the time.

So don't be discouraged that I and others have not been here til this point in your posting. As it is, I'm leaving tomorrow and will be away for a couple weeks. But it's so nice to take a break from pre-trip tasks, while the Boards are slow and not otherwise distracting, and muse through at least the first few pages of this. You've done some fine work here. Never mind whether you get too little or too much applause. Just enjoy it for what it is, and for the intrinsic value of what you've done.

Bob

[cbspock]

I still have to post the horse story. Shania and her friend enter a rundown horse into a horse show when they were 10.


-Chris

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
Now back to the quotes....................


"There's no way that I would go nude in a front. I don't think under any circumstances!" - Shania
Me either. ;) (I wouldn't want anyone to get sick.)


Originally posted by cbspock

"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind." -Shania

Life goes faster and gets shorter every year. Losing people can almost become an artform in itself, if you have a lot of aunt's, uncles and older relatives, whose funerals you attend. But losing the first ones, and the closest ones, especially your parents, is one heck of a jolt, even if it happens naturally and in old age.

Originally posted by cbspock

"I used to think anyone who lived in a brick house and didn't have to cut coupons to go to the grocery store was rich. I think, deep down, I always have that anxiety that I might be poor again." - Shania
Hmn, I know someone in Timmins who fits that description, going way back.

Originally posted by cbspock

"I would have no breakfast and nothing to eat at lunchtime, I would be at school, just sitting there famished when everyone was opening up their ham sandwiches. It was humiliating, so I would go to the music room and play." -Shania
That's a heart rending and unforgettable story.

A similar one is about her carrying to school, mustard sandwiches, with no meat and nothing else for lunch. It reminds me of the small, very thin child Mimi, who I met in Timmins one day last May. I wrote a story about that somewhere. The most recent edition is post #150 in the thread at this link:
http://www.shaniaforums.com/showthread.php?t=36215&page=6&pp=25

I don't know how mustard sandwiches would taste. But I have taken to having ketchup sandwiches lately, with no meat and nothing else. It tastes almost as good as the same sandwich WITH the meat to me. I've never been a big meat eater. And now that it's becoming more difficult to keep the lard from appearing 'round my middle, no matter how much I exercise, the ketchup sandwiches actually fit my needs better, even tho my pocket book could afford more.

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
I still have to post the horse story. Shania and her friend enter a rundown horse into a horse show when they were 10.

-Chris
Sounds like a great story. Will look for it when I get back, if I don't get a chance to see it sooner.

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
second edition.....

On the making of Up! Page 397

During the early stages rumours flew around that the whole record was being recorded using machines and Pro Tools. While Mutt was assisted by two expert programmers and editors, the Churko brothers from Saskatoon, it was always his intension to use living breathing players.

"Mutt doesn't like machines when he can use musicians, " says Shania. "We used a lot of different musicians on the record, many more than usual."

.....

"We didn't focus too strongly on the lyrics until closer to the end because I wanted the songs to be fresh, to reflect what I was currently thinking and feeling"

.....

...While it was the Mutt Lange Show, Shania had a tremendous amount of input, she was in the studio all day every day, six days a week. There was no antsy behavior, no dissappearing off shopping or hanging around doing her make-up. She sang every pass every time, giving full on guide vocals to every backing track. He treated her the same as every other musician, except occasionally when they got into arguements over vocal parts.

"I think you ought to sing it like this. " said Mutt, to which she might reply, "Yes, but I feel theat if the words are more intimate I ought to be more like this" Then they would start what Leim calls this "Oh, honey thing... with Mutt saying "Well, honey, I think it out to be, " or Sweetkins, I think it out to be". and "Sugar baby, why don't you try it like...." Mutt is very demanding at what he wants, but in such a gentlemanly fashion, you can't get mad at him".


Shania paints with words and melodies, Mutt paints with sound.

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Interesting, that back in 1995, Lewis was also seen as an outsider by Music Row.

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Only Mutt could get away with calling Shania "sweetkins" lol hehe hehe :hyst:

-Chris
This (info in blue above) makes sense to me. They use tools for the design, because of the complexity. Then when they get it the way they want it, they use actual musicians to create the natural sound, using the good design.

That's also a secret to great management. If you design a really good organization with it's structure and processes, that makes it easier for good employees to do a fantastic job. If you design a lousy organization, or just slop through the planning and design, then the best employees in the world, can't rescue your business from a disaster.

She paints with words and melodies, he paints with sound. Very intriguing, but not a complete description. I also noticed her mention of his tendency to use cerebral ability in music, whereas she tends to use the heart. They're both communicating and great at it. But they each emphasize a different aspect of it.

One of my future projects is to delve into that. The identifying and sorting out of the components of the best in communication through music. Some of them can be alligned and designed much more easily than the trial and error approach currently used. Feelings, emotions, mood and the heart are one component, which may be the most basic part. Corresponding to that, are words, rhyme, rhythm, colors, volume, and a whole list of other elements. Too many for one person to keep track of with out good design tools. As things stand now, the most creative and experienced artists, can pull a lot of those together, somewhat out of thin air, in response to certain stimuli that they encounter. That's very fulfilling, even therapeutic. But there's a so much easier way to do some of the harder parts of it. It's like cooking in the stone age, where you have to work all day over the fire, compared to cooking today in a modern kitchen.

I'm only up to page 8 so far. I will probably have to save the rest until after I get back in late June.

[cbspock]

Not to turn the discussion into a Protools one, but it is used to manage the tracks, and the actual recording session. So if they record in Switerland, and want to finish a track in say London, Mutt can load up the session in London, and Protools will set the studio up just like he had it in Switerland, and he has all the various recorded tracks at his fingertips. Despite the popular lie coming from Nashville it can not make a person who can't sing, sing.

Mutt unlike a lot of producers records the instruments seperately, so he can adjust the levels of each the way he wants when he puts the song together. Another advantage to Protools is the editing. There is an article on the board that discusses Mutt upgrading his studio during the recording of Up! since he had to manage at the very least 3 versions of each song.

-Chris

[corran]

This all goes to show you how Shania and Mutt have grown to be more versatile and flexible in their creativity...But music continues to be the tool that touches and makes it way into the soul...Shania and Mutt are particularly adept at reaching down to our deeper selves...

Benjamin:)

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
(RE)... Protools

-Chris
ProTools does does a lot within it's parameters. But it doesn't really get into the issues I'm addressing, which are a bridge into the core of humanity, or what some call the heart and soul of music artistry.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Bob
ProTools does does a lot within it's parameters. But it doesn't really get into the issues I'm addressing, which are a bridge into the core of humanity, or what some call the heart and soul of music artistry.


True, that comes from Shania and Mutt, and their writing. At least we get to see some of it at the STC. Now that Shania has explained whose writing is whose, it will be even more interesting this time.


Also, she writes on the legal pads a certain way so she can quickly flip between verses as Mutt is playing.

-Chris

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
True, that comes from Shania and Mutt, and their writing. At least we get to see some of it at the STC. Now that Shania has explained whose writing is whose, it will be even more interesting this time.


Also, she writes on the legal pads a certain way so she can quickly flip between verses as Mutt is playing.

-Chris
Agreed.

I've seen the notes in the STC. But it will be interesting to look again, to see what fits where, based on how she's characterized their writing, some of which is nicely portrayed in this thread.

I'll have to go back and refresh my memory on which of these issues is most interesting and revealing to me, before I get back to the STC.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Bob
Agreed.

I've seen the notes in the STC. But it will be interesting to look again, to see what fits where, based on how she's characterized their writing, some of which is nicely portrayed in this thread.

I'll have to go back and refresh my memory on which of these issues is most interesting and revealing to me, before I get back to the STC.


What we will need to do, is see if Tracy will let us see the real thing, and not the copies. :D

[cbspock]

A Little Insight As To Shania's Songwriting

She didn't keep a diary, but her songwriting book served the same purpose."I liked to escape my personal life through my music," She explains. While she was learning valuable lessons about how to be confident in public, Shania held on tight to the private side of herself. She has always been drawn to secret places where she can be alone with her thoughts. "My mother used to try so hard to catch me songwriting and I would just get so mad at her," she recalled in a Rolling Stone article. Shania often sought out the solitude of the forests near her house, where she would build a fire, play her guitar, and let her vivid imagination run free. "If I would hear anyone coming, or calling my name, I would be still or quiet as a mouse until they went away," she confided in her 1994 "fan letter."

--
found that on the cmt board.


-Chris

[jlynn]

WOW! Really love the quotes. It inspires me to read quotes, Love reading them. Thanks

[cbspock]

"I like chopping wood," Shania told Country America in 1996. "I like making fires. I love smelling like fire. That's my favourite smell. I love it when my hair smells like fire." -Shania



-Chris

[jan b]

Well the next time I smell like a fire I shall say to myself ' now I smell like Shania, no need to buy her new perfume'!:D

[cbspock]

Okay...more stories....

Eggar 2nd ed page 268

"I didn't fall in love right off the bat, it took about.... a month" she (Shania) laughs. Those first weeks in Nashville, they didn't do much writing, just swapped stories and laughed a lot. For Shania it was a relevation. She had never met a man like him before. Here was this guy, Ok so he was older and he was rich and powerful, but she already knew people like that and how to play them. But she couldn't play Mutt, because he wouldn't respond. Instead, he teased her just like Jerry used to, chistened her "Woody" because "I had short bangs when I met him and he thought I looked like Woody Woodpecker" :p

---
On song writing....

Mutt turned her the way Shania thought about song upside down and round about, made her look at them in a brand new way. First he told her "We need to go into your catalogue. I want to know what you've been writing, then we'll go from there". He showed her how versus could become choruses, choruses become hooks. He told her, "No that lyric's not quite there yet". Her lyrics moved from the generic to the personal. Insted of resorting to cliche, she came over sassy, teasing but self contained and strong- the antithesis of the Nashville Woman in song but spot-on in terms of 90's reality. Mutt believed that titles were essential, they could colour the flavor of the song, that one word can make a difference. Changing "This Man of Mine" to "Any Man of Mine" altered the entire sexual dynamic, and only two lines of the original lyric survived the rewriting process. The singer was now in control, no longer passive. So simple to see, So difficult to do.

[cbspock]

Page 370 second edition, Eggar book...

Shania on TV.....

"I really don't like television, it makes me nervous, she says "TV is too restricting. Someone else is in charge. I have no control. Not being in control always worries Shania, and when things go wrong, the warning signs are easily recognized: a thin lipped non-smile iterspersed with swear words. Once Shania starts effing and blinding, it is a sure giveaway, for she seldom swears. hehe hehe hehe :hyst:


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Shania on the "beginnings cd" page 371....

Shania was not impressed. "I don't mind listening to my old stuff, but it annoys me that people make money out of that," she said. "If I met that person, I would slap their face, it is so rude. I feel like I've been betrayed by a fellow music person."

----


-Chris

[cbspock]

Sales of Shania Twain is at 1.5 million, according to Eggar page 374. So, where is the next certification for this disc Mercury????


-Chris

[cbspock]

I just love the end of this piece.....


Page 375 Egger 2nd ed....

Shania's sales accounted for 10% of UMG's international sales by 1999......By the turn of the millenium, Shania had achieved an almost unique cross-section of the audience. She ahd the adult market that buys albums and the kids, young girls from eleven to fourteen who adored her image, indeed wanted to be like her, that buy her singles. Her music, in ver much the same way Michael Jackson's once did, engages children on a fundamental level. They don't care about the subtext of the words, they just love the songs and the way she looks. To the late teens and early twenties she was certainly not credible, as far from hip as can be, but that has never been her- or indeed Mutt's market. Their happiness shrapnel is now embedded the world over

[jan b]

Thanks for your posts Chris they make a great read :)

[ojibiwanqueenst]

"Shania is..Shania is just a fantasy. Eilleen is the person. There is a lot more to Eilleen than there is to Shania."

--Shania, "Katie At Night"

Shania also said that she goes to Switzerland to get away from Shania, and everything that surrounds it, the fame.

[cbspock]

On May 16, 1999 while in town for a concert stop, Shania's band spent the day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They were invited by the Goodyear sponsors and spent the day getting an inside look at the Indy Racing League. "This was a dream day for me" said bass player Andy Cichon. "I have always been a huge motor sports fan." Later that night, the racing people got to take in Shaina's concert at Deer Creek Music Center. On another racing related note, NASCAR driver Tim Fedewa has named his car 'Shania' after our favorite singer!


-cmt messageboard

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
Okay...more stories....

Eggar 2nd ed page 268

"I didn't fall in love right off the bat, it took about.... a month" she (Shania) laughs. Those first weeks in Nashville, they didn't do much writing, just swapped stories and laughed a lot. For Shania it was a relevation. She had never met a man like him before. Here was this guy, Ok so he was older and he was rich and powerful, but she already knew people like that and how to play them. But she couldn't play Mutt, because he wouldn't respond. Instead, he teased her just like Jerry used to, chistened her "Woody" because "I had short bangs when I met him and he thought I looked like Woody Woodpecker" :p

---
On song writing....

Mutt turned her the way Shania thought about song upside down and round about, made her look at them in a brand new way. First he told her "We need to go into your catalogue. I want to know what you've been writing, then we'll go from there". He showed her how versus could become choruses, choruses become hooks. He told her, "No that lyric's not quite there yet". Her lyrics moved from the generic to the personal. Insted of resorting to cliche, she came over sassy, teasing but self contained and strong- the antithesis of the Nashville Woman in song but spot-on in terms of 90's reality. Mutt believed that titles were essential, they could colour the flavor of the song, that one word can make a difference. Changing "This Man of Mine" to "Any Man of Mine" altered the entire sexual dynamic, and only two lines of the original lyric survived the rewriting process. The singer was now in control, no longer passive. So simple to see, So difficult to do.

Well, I can't speak to the falling in love part. That's different with every person one meets. But the not letting one's self be played in the usual way is a good insight. I think it's best to have some give and take in a relationship, not have one person pulling all the strings. Even in a couple's dancing, it's a mistake to think it's up to the man to do everything with his leading. He needs some resistance, a presence for the partnership to work. He can't dance with a totally passive, limp dishrag.

On their writing of music, that's interesting that verses can become choruses and choruses can become hooks. I know virtually nothing about that. However similarities exist between writing music and other forms of communication.

Going from the generic to the specific, is a great technique. Too often, citing the abstract concept is hollow and without feeling or much meaning. Personal statements say a lot, at least if said well and with precis. I still have to learn how to do that last word. I've got plenty of stories. But not much brevity.

I also agree that titles are important and that one word can make a difference. Found that out when I made chapter titles in a table of contents for the family history book I wrote. Great fulfillment in arranging the view of a story.

But Shania said song writing is hard work, and she has to go off alone or with Mutt to do it without distractions. She said it's not some romantic, easy task like many fans imagine. It requires a lot of concentration and time. And it can't be done on some musical treadmill or consistent schedule like Nashville tried to put her on. She has to write when the muse strikes her. I think the best writing often comes that way.

But Shelby Foote, the noted Civil War historian who died a few days ago said that the best writing techniques are different for each individual person. He, for instance, liked story telling rather than formal history. Just saw him in a notebook TV call-in show on CNN, I think. What a phenomenal memory he had. And his humble view of himself (don't call him Doctor) and his origins was as warm and rich as his voice.

[cbspock]

She wrote FTMO at a soccer game. hehe hehe


-Chris

[cbspock]

and You've got a way.......


(this one was tough, she talks so fast..lol)


"This is like a favorite....I started writing this song, Mutt was working on a Micheal Bolton record a couple of years ago, and we hadn't seen each other much at all, and we really go out of our way to be together. and although he was working in the studio and I was only able to have meals with him we would eat dinner together or whatever. I went to visit him for a couple of days at Micheal Bolton's house. So I drove up and I was in my room upstairs and you know kinda waiting for him (Mutt) to come (pause. definitely a change of thought) for dinner and I started writing this song. Alone in my thoughts and just got into this song thats become, I get lost in this song, i love this song, when I listen back to this song, I get so high on this song, It is my favorite song I love where it is on the album

it is a very intimate, and simple song, it says a lot emotionally. It doesnt take a lot of words

it does the trick on me"


That is from the COO radio show.

[Bob]

And didn't she write one song quickly, like 20 minutes? If so, maybe some of those quotes apply to some situations, but not all.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Bob
And didn't she write one song quickly, like 20 minutes? If so, maybe some of those quotes apply to some situations, but not all.


She came up with "I'm Outta Here" when she and Mutt went out to dinner. He was telling her they needed one more song for the TWIM album, and did she have anything else in her notes that they could use. Shania said that she didn't want Mutt to know she didn't have anything, so she just blurted out "If you're not in it for love, I'm outta here". Mutt thought it was a great hook, and Shania just said that it was something she was working on recently hehe hehe


Sneaky ain't she...lol


-Chris

[Bob]

Originally posted by Jud
...,

It's easy to read a book, when somone else turning the pages fpr you:p
Yeah, it also helps when someone shares pages I don't even have yet. My version only goes up to about page 300. I wonder if what a person doesn't have, sometimes seems more valuable than what they do have.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Bob
Yeah, it also helps when someone shares pages I don't even have yet. My version only goes up to about page 300. I wonder if what a person doesn't have, sometimes seems more valuable than what they do have.


Well, I got an email from Robin, and there is a 3rd edition coming out in the States later this year, and will go up to the GH CD. There are no details as to what happened on the tour between Shania and BB. All he knew was that he left.


-Chris

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
I really have to read the 2nd edition all the way through. I only read the new parts when I first got it. I loved the 1st edition a lot. There is so much info in the books. Great interviews, and it gives you a great understanding of the garbage Shania has to put up with.

-Chris
I didn't know that you could easily see which parts of the 2nd edition are new. I'd asked a couple people about that a long time ago, and don't remember getting a clear answer. If I'd known that, I'd probably have gotten the 2nd edition too. Maybe I still will. It could fill in some pieces of the puzzle before we get to Deerhurst in August. The next edition probably won't come out until well after that.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by Bob
I didn't know that you could easily see which parts of the 2nd edition are new. I'd asked a couple people about that a long time ago, and don't remember getting a clear answer. If I'd known that, I'd probably have gotten the 2nd edition too. Maybe I still will. It could fill in some pieces of the puzzle before we get to Deerhurst in August. The next edition probably won't come out until well after that.


Some changes were made to the begining of the book, since Eggar interviewed Shania again before the release of the second edition, he changed the chapter on her mom, and then tagged on the Up! stuff at the end. The first edition ended with the birth of Eja, the second picks up with the development of Up!



-Chris

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
She came up with "I'm Outta Here" when she and Mutt went out to dinner. He was telling her they needed one more song for the TWIM album, and did she have anything else in her notes that they could use. Shania said that she didn't want Mutt to know she didn't have anything, so she just blurted out "If you're not in it for love, I'm outta here". Mutt thought it was a great hook, and Shania just said that it was something she was working on recently hehe hehe


Sneaky ain't she...lol


-Chris

Mutt must have been a bit overwhelmed when she blurted it out however...Sounds quite funny though...

Benjmain

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
She came up with "I'm Outta Here" when she and Mutt went out to dinner. He was telling her they needed one more song for the TWIM album, and did she have anything else in her notes that they could use. Shania said that she didn't want Mutt to know she didn't have anything, so she just blurted out "If you're not in it for love, I'm outta here". Mutt thought it was a great hook, and Shania just said that it was something she was working on recently hehe hehe

Sneaky ain't she...lol

-Chris

Originally posted by corran
Mutt must have been a bit overwhelmed when she blurted it out however...

Benjmain

Yes, I'm with you on that one Ben. She didn't want to tell the truth, so she blasted Mutt emotionally? Yikes! If true, that's more than just being sneaky. It's one of those things that women seem to forget, while they're complaining about the shortcomings that all men seem to have. But then seeing patterns and jumping to conclusions is one of my shortcomings. I don't know the context of this quote at all. Maybe it's a lot more understandable and reasonable within the accurate context of what actually happened.

Can you enlarge the context for us Chris? What was Robin writing about at that point?

I know in the first edition of the book, he mixed a lot of things into a story, but they were not in convenient chronological sequence through the book. As but one example, I found pieces of info about music demos at Deerhurst and people related to that, spread throughout many chapters of the book. I'm not sure the job could've been done a lot better. But it almost seems like I need a table of rows and columns to keep track of the time line on one dimension, and the people on another.

[cbspock]

The IOH story is not from the book, it is from the CMT video bio special. Shania told that story, she was smiling and laughing while she was telling it.


He loved the line, and they actually started writing the song at the table, and then finished it that night.

There is another story, I am not sure if it was in the book or in a Shania interview, where she said that Mutt will just walk into the kitchen or wherever playing something on the guitar, and ask her to sing the first thing that comes to mind.

In one of the COO presskit interviews, Shania talks about working on one of the songs for the album, and showing the lyrics to Mutt, and he looks at them, tells her they still need work. Shania says "Well, thank you very much, I have only been working on them for hours...lol"


-Chris

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
The IOH story is not from the book, it is from the CMT video bio special. Shania told that story, she was smiling and laughing while she was telling it.

Corran's statement is not correct. "Mutt must have been a bit overwhelmed when she blurted it out however...


They actually started writing the song at the table, and then finished it that night.

-Chris
Whew! Thanks for the prompt clarification. I gotta watch that Ben guy. He can lead me down the rosy path sometimes, and then let me fall off into the thorn bushes. I'll have to see the rest of it myself before opining about what you suggested was Mutt or Shania being sneaky. Another project for another day. Plate is more than full already. I'm actually mostly procrastinating here at the moment.

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
Here ... from her high school days...

Page 101 of the Eggar 2nd edition.....


This ... story still describes Shania today......

Once she relaxed, Eilleen was a chatterbox like her mom. She was, as Rick recalls, great company. "There are some people that shine pretty bright and some that are pretty dim. She was always a lot more shiny than the rest of us. She loved to know exactly what was going on around her. If she started laughing, that was it, the whole room cracked up. She's got one of those infectious laughs and she loved to use it. She was an absolute howl. When she wanted to start speaking, she'd get all excited, go at a million miles an hour. She had a joie de vivre. She was passionate and enthusiastic about things.
...,

I understand perhaps too well, that part about being a chatterbox, once relaxed.

I'm reserved with people I don't know, and that's most people. But once I feel comfortable with someone, I'm very open and sociable. I don't know whether that comes more from having a very supportive family/parents, or from trying hard to please. Probably both.

It's like I'm stuck in first gear at the start, then after a certain point, I suddenly find myself in high gear, and going too fast. If I had a middle gear, it would make things go so much smoother. Maybe Eilleen doesn't have a middle gear either.

In a professional role as Shania, she seems to handle herself pretty well though. I suppose a lot of practice in public speaking helps.

Also, her candor and sharing of interesting, even intimate stories, is one of her more appealing characteristics.

[cbspock]

Shania's best interviews happen when she feels comfortable with the interviewer.


-Chris

[corran]

Originally posted by cbspock
The IOH story is not from the book, it is from the CMT video bio special. Shania told that story, she was smiling and laughing while she was telling it.


He loved the line, and they actually started writing the song at the table, and then finished it that night.

There is another story, I am not sure if it was in the book or in a Shania interview, where she said that Mutt will just walk into the kitchen or wherever playing something on the guitar, and ask her to sing the first thing that comes to mind.

In one of the COO presskit interviews, Shania talks about working on one of the songs for the album, and showing the lyrics to Mutt, and he looks at them, tells her they still need work. Shania says "Well, thank you very much, I have only been working on them for hours...lol"


-Chris

Creativity cannot be forced...It must be inspired...You can work hours at creating and not get anywhere but then suddenly while you are doing something completely different you will be suddenly inspired to write something down...I bet Shania does that all the time...Such is also the nature of brainstorming...You have to let the subconscious work on the problem for a while...Give it time I know it has come through for me so many times to come up with those much needed answers...

Benjamin:)

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
Shania's best interviews happen when she feels comfortable with the interviewer.

-Chris
I remember her saying several times, and enthusiastically, that she was very comfortable with the fellow who set up then joined her in that chainsaw contest on TV. John Bannock or something like that? He said he'd been nominated for an award like a grammy three times but never won. So he guessed that meant his time was near an end.

Meanwhile, they had some very relaxed an enjoyable discussion, til he got her started talking on something obviously important to her. Then as she carefully tried to describe her thoughts and feelings, he interrupted teasingly at several times along the way. Finally she just burst out laughing and started whacking him in mock hits with her hand on his shoulder.

She did say that she would be comfortable coming back on that show some time, and agreed with him that maybe they could find a spot for her in the band. Again I don't know the context or timing of that show. But when I saw it, the possibility occured to me that she might have been implying what sometimes is lacking on other TV show interviews.

On the other hand, she also had a great interview on the Oprah show. And I'm not sure we could say she was exactly comfortable there. She was actually very nervous, mostly about meeting and singing with Dolly. But I think she was reasonably trusting and comfortable enough with Oprah.

[corran]

Originally posted by Bob
Whew! Thanks for the prompt clarification. I gotta watch that Ben guy. He can lead me down the rosy path sometimes, and then let me fall off into the thorn bushes. I'll have to see the rest of it myself before opining about what you suggested was Mutt or Shania being sneaky. Another project for another day. Plate is more than full already. I'm actually mostly procrastinating here at the moment.


What I meant to say Bob is that Mutt must have been suprised at the topic...But I know that Mutt loves controversy just as Shania knows it will bring more people to the table...

Benjamin:)

[cbspock]

Look at the Larry King interview. It started out really bad and in the end turned into a good interview once he let her finish answering his questions. He also stopped asking annoying questions that everyone knew the answers too.


-Chris

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
On May 16, 1999 while in town for a concert stop, Shania's band spent the day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They were invited by the Goodyear sponsors and spent the day getting an inside look at the Indy Racing League. "This was a dream day for me" said bass player Andy Cichon. "I have always been a huge motor sports fan." Later that night, the racing people got to take in Shaina's concert at Deer Creek Music Center. On another racing related note, NASCAR driver Tim Fedewa has named his car 'Shania' after our favorite singer!
-cmt messageboard
Yep, Andy Cichon and my older brother both enjoy a leadfoot on the accelerator. Both like speed, power and auto racing. I don't know if it's more than a coincidence, but they're both also body builders.

I remember even as kids back on the farm, my brother would rather hear the sound of our small farm tractor at full throttle in a middle gear, than at 1/4 throttle in a higher gear.

One day, in order to get even more VROOM sound out of the engine, he took a file and shaved down the metal block that stopped the throttle from opening wider. As I recall, my dad didn't appreciate my brother's engineering skills.

[cbspock]

Shania on songwriting......

KING: Country song. What is it that you -- you can't bottle it, right? There's no formula.

TWAIN: No.

KING: What are we looking for?

TWAIN: I like to write -- I just want to write songs that people can relate to on an everyday basis.

KING: So, you don't label them.

TWAIN: A sense of humor. No, I just write a song. I'm not sitting there to write a country song.

----

This was really nice to hear Shania talk about how the fan reaction was able to get her Up!

TWAIN: But you know, when you say how has it affected you, there was a period where it was really, really difficult, I was being really, really hard on myself, being a real perfectionist, got up on stage and thought, what are you people clapping for? I'm not doing well tonight.

You know, because you know yourself. I'm not singing all that well. I'm not doing well. Why are you -- and nobody notices, it seems. I mean, they must, but fans are so forgiving and they're so dedicated.

But I was in a weird phase and thought what are you clapping for? I'm not doing well. And it really got me down for awhile. But I came around and thought, you know, that's the beauty of all this, fans are special. They're not critics. And so I need to be grateful that these people are appreciating what I'm doing. And I'm giving -- I'm doing my best, even if my best isn't my best.

[Bob]

Originally posted by cbspock
"I like chopping wood," Shania told Country America in 1996. "I like making fires. I love smelling like fire. That's my favourite smell. I love it when my hair smells like fire." -Shania

-Chris
Not quite sure what the intent was there, compared to the words.

Splitting firewood can be fun, because it requires a special skill to read the wood grain, hit consistently where you aim with the splitting maul, and it gives vigorous exercise in the fresh air.

Meanwhile chopping trees down with an axe also can be fun because you can see the exceptionally tangible results of your effort immediately.

On the other hand, delimbing trees with an axe can be difficult, dangerous and a bit frustrating. So many branches at so many angles, and some of them are still holding up the tree trunk.

I'm not sure what is the smell of fire. Depends on what's burning. I do enjoy the smell of burning wood in furnaces, fireplaces, safe spots outdoors and the like. The sensation takes me instantly back to a primitive and grounded state of mind. Then I can reverie from there, to some of my earliest experiences smelling wood smoke, and the contentment from those times.

[cbspock]

I would surmise, that she means a campfire, since she loved going out into the bush to sing and write.


-Chris

[cbspock]

SHANIA ON HER JOB AT MCDONALDS

Life worked out a little better economically as a teen, as Shania worked briefly as a food flipper at McDonald's in Timmins, Ontario.
"I always appreciated my job at McDonald's," said Shania of the place where sister Carrie also worked. "It seems that today a lot of young people are too proud to sweep floors. We didn't have a lot of money, and that job bought me my school clothes."

[tower]

Shania speaking to JP on the 1996 Timmins Homecoming:

"I never did get employee of the Month" "My Sister Carrie Anne did though" :D

[cbspock]

Originally posted by tower
Shania speaking to JP on the 1996 Timmins Homecoming:

"I never did get employee of the Month" "My Sister Carrie Anne did though" :D


Yeah, but she finally got it at that dinner. They did have the plaque in the STC at one time, don't know if it is still there.


-Chris

[jen]

Originally posted by cbspock
She came up with "I'm Outta Here" when she and Mutt went out to dinner. He was telling her they needed one more song for the TWIM album, and did she have anything else in her notes that they could use. Shania said that she didn't want Mutt to know she didn't have anything, so she just blurted out "If you're not in it for love, I'm outta here". Mutt thought it was a great hook, and Shania just said that it was something she was working on recently hehe hehe


Sneaky ain't she...lol


-Chris COOL story, I didn't know that:)

[jen]

Originally posted by cbspock
Well, I got an email from Robin, and there is a 3rd edition coming out in the States later this year, and will go up to the GH CD. There are no details as to what happened on the tour between Shania and BB. All he knew was that he left.


-Chris GREAT news! I can't wait to get that version, I have been holding out in getting the book for a couple of years. I appreciate this thread because I have learned more and more about Shania as the posts go on.

Thanks to everyone that contributes on:)

[jen]

Originally posted by cbspock
Shania's best interviews happen when she feels comfortable with the interviewer.


-Chris I agree, that is why I would love for her to be a guest on Ellen next time around.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by jen
GREAT news! I can't wait to get that version, I have been holding out in getting the book for a couple of years. I appreciate this thread because I have learned more and more about Shania as the posts go on.

Thanks to everyone that contributes on:)


I will have more soon.


-Chris

[cbspock]

found on the cmt board, and it may be further back in this thread...



"It's so easy to get flattered by everything that's going on around you. And it's okay to be flattered, but it's not okay to lose a true sense of humility. And it's hard. Sometimes you're trying to build your confidence and confidence comes from ego. In order to be really confident, and do a good job, it's kind of an ego thing. So, how do you do that and stay humble at the same time?... I think humility is the most important thing for me to remember."
-- Shania Twain

[cbspock]

"....selecting the band was based a lot on their energy level. I want them to be performers. I want them to involve the audience. I want it to be a party"-Shania Twain [on her Come On Over Tour 1998]

[jen]

Originally posted by cbspock
found on the cmt board, and it may be further back in this thread...



"It's so easy to get flattered by everything that's going on around you. And it's okay to be flattered, but it's not okay to lose a true sense of humility. And it's hard. Sometimes you're trying to build your confidence and confidence comes from ego. In order to be really confident, and do a good job, it's kind of an ego thing. So, how do you do that and stay humble at the same time?... I think humility is the most important thing for me to remember."
-- Shania Twain

I love this quote, sometimes when I hear Shania talk about her singing on award shows and that she still gets nervous, I feel like she is still unsure about how great she sings LIVE.

[cbspock]

Originally posted by jen
I love this quote, sometimes when I hear Shania talk about her singing on award shows and that she still gets nervous, I feel like she is still unsure about how great she sings LIVE.



Shania sometimes needs to have more confidence in herself.


-Chris

[FinnFreak]

...I noticed this part quoted a couple pages back...

Originally posted by cbspock

If she started laughing, that was it, the whole room cracked up. She's got one of those infectious laughs and she loved to use it. She was an absolute howl.

:BL - yep..! - it's genuine & it works..!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/FinnFreak/biglaugh.jpg


John - ;)

[cbspock]

Originally posted by FinnFreak
...I noticed this part quoted a couple pages back...



:BL - yep..! - it's genuine & it works..!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/FinnFreak/biglaugh.jpg


John - ;)


It works for her smile as well.


-Chris

[Steve F]

Originally posted by FinnFreak
...I noticed this part quoted a couple pages back...



:BL - yep..! - it's genuine & it works..!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/FinnFreak/biglaugh.jpg


John - ;)

I think if you were in a room full of people, and Shania laughed, you would be able to tell right away. She does have an infectious one.

One of the best places to catch it is on the Winter Break Special when she and Elton John stop singing YSTO and TSATWYLT. What a great laugh she has right there.;)

Steve

[cbspock]

"Well, he's about 6 feet tall, blond, blue eyes, he's a very sweet sweet man" - Shania on Mutt


Shania on Mutt: Mutt's a great guy. I refer to him as Mutt, that's the only name he goes by, but he's "Love" to me. He's a very deep person, very gentle. He's a very unusual character. When we met, I didn't think of him romantically at all. But, he was like someone I'd known for many years. He became a good friend, fast.


-cmt shania board

[jen]

Originally posted by cbspock
These are about Shania....


"Thank God for Shania. She changed that mindset . Leave it to Shania to shake things up." -Reba


Here she is, completely ignored by the CMA this year, and yet there she was singing on the show. Then she seeks me out to talk. We talked about a lot of things, she asked about my family, and things that are really important. She's just a class act,"-Toby Keith


“She’s so down-to-earth and sweet and he’s great. The first time he was introduced to us, the first thing he said was ‘Sorry we took so long (at sound check)’ — and it’s their show!”

They also managed to shock Lange when they played Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You).

“He stopped in his tracks … he’d forgotten he’d written it,” chuckles Mates. -Emerson Drive


Dolly Parton.....
Parton explains, "Shania said, 'Don't let anybody have Coat of Many Colours, and Dolly has to sing harmony.'

"After she recorded it, I sang harmony on it and when they sent Shania the track, she just cried like a baby.

"I thought, 'Well, if you can live long enough and do something special enough to bring out that kind of emotion in somebody, that's what it's all about.'"


Shania Twain has carved out her own place in country. Until she came along, there
was no job description for what she is -- a pop femme fatale in country, for want of
a better term. She's playing by her own rules. And she's changing the audience."
Chet Flippo, Nashville correspondent for Billboard


"If she could just sell a few more albums she might just hit
it big and I'll let her open for me on my next world tour."
Terri Clark joking about Shania at the 1998 CCMA's


"Shania's a different kind of performer. She's an energy. She's beautiful, she's
got a great body, she loves to perform"
Pierre Cossette, Grammy producer


"She had a vision for what she wanted to go do, and
anything less than achieving that was half-assed to her."
Toby Keith, toured with Shania in 1993


"Anne Murray cracked the door to success in America. Michelle Wright wedged
it a little more. Shania blew it wide open."
Cliff Dumas, CISS FM


"Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined."
Rex Murphy, New Year's Eve/97 edition of CBC TV's National Magazine

This was the greatest natural talent that I have ever been personally involved with."
Richard Frank, attorney who has represented Patsy Cline among others.
He was asked to see Shania perform at Deerhurst Resort


"She's been at the top of the charts for two years, and she still hasn't gotten
the pats on the back that she deserves." (because she'd never won an ACM award - before 99)
Reba McEntire


"A lot of people are accusing her of being packaged. But I don't think this is a
marketing-driven artist. It's been her vision from the beginning -- all the clothes, all the
looks, all the concepts."
Luke Lewis, Nashville president of Mercury


"I don't think the (Dixie) Chicks have opened any doors
for us. The biggest door opener for us has been Shania Twain and her style of country."
Kelsi (from SHeDaisy)


"She's developing into a big star. People love her. They've taken to her like a duck to water."
Trevor Smith, Australia Country Music Association


"What hasn't she done for country music, and what hasn't she done for females in country
music? She deserves everything she gets, absolutely."
Tim McGraw at the 2000 ACMA's, on losing the Entertainer of the Year award to Shania


"We market Shania like a pop star because she is a pop star internationally."
David Lory, vice president of artist development and international marketing for Mercury Records


"I was really hoping she'd win. That was her first award on the CMAs, to my knowledge," McEntire tells LAUNCH. "She didn't win album of the year at the ACM or CMAs--she should have. She was at the top of the charts forever, and she wasn't recognized for that, and I apologized several times for that to her. I said, 'I'm sorry. That's not fair.' And when she won the entertainer of the year, and for me to get to pass that to the next female to receive it since I was the last to receive it in '86, was perfect! I stepped away from the microphone and said, 'I am so thrilled to be able to present this to you.' It meant the world to me."-Reba

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More from Shania....

"If you saw me the way I normally am, you wouldn't think I was so beautiful - I don't know what you would think." (on her looks)



I'm not just a lap dancer afterall..." (after winning the 1999 CMA Entertainer Of The Year award) HEY1 One of the best Shania quotes ever!


"It's so easy to get flattered by everything that's going on around you. And it's okay to be flattered, but it's not okay to lose a true sense of humility. And it's hard. Sometimes you're trying to build your confidence and confidence comes from ego. In order to be really confident, and do a good job, it's kind of an ego thing. So, how do you do that and stay humble at the same time? ... I think humility is the most important thing for me to remember."


"Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.



I was just reading through some of these again.....great stuff!!

[Steve F]

It sure is great stuff. I'm glad to have had the chance to read it again.;)

Steve

[cbspock]

Shania's comments seem to portray a laid-back approach. Normally in charge, Shania allowed Mutt to choose their child's name. Eja is pronounced"Asiah" and means "Angel." "It is East Indian-influenced. It was short; it was interesting; and Mutt picked it. I can't believe it! I'm such a control freak, usually. I thought for sure I was going to pick the name."


I think this is from the Redbook interview.


-Chris

[Steve F]

Yes, I remember reading that. I think she is right though when she has said that having a child has made her feel more vulnerable and more emotions too. I am sure she still is a "control freak" when it comes to anything to do with her music.:D

Steve

[ojibiwanqueenst]

Jo Dee Messina, fellow country star and singer of "My Give A Damn's Busted, "Bring On the Rain", once stayed at Shania and Mutt's Swiss mansion, around the time that Shania was 8 months pregnant with Eja. She had this to say about the Langes: "They were two of the kindest, gentlest people she has met, and their baby will be the most wanted and loved." She laughs and says, "I wish I was that kid!". Jo Dee was in Switzerland to attend a music festival. Shania has also given Messina concert tickets.

[jen]

very cool to be able to see that side of Shania & Mutt:)

[Steve F]

Yeah, I remember that.:) It was a sweet comment from Jo Dee.;)

Steve

[corran]

Originally posted by Steve F
Yeah, I remember that.:) It was a sweet comment from Jo Dee.;)

Steve

Yes I most certainly agree Steve...Nice for Joe Dee to say something positive like that...

Benjamin:)

[Steve F]

Originally posted by corran
Yes I most certainly agree Steve...Nice for Joe Dee to say something positive like that...

Benjamin:)

I'm leaning toward her being one of those Shania knows who she can count on. I hope I'm right.

Steve