Canadian - Musician | July 30, 1941 -
Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.
Paul Anka
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The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.
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I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
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As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.
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Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
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My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
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I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.
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When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.
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I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.
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For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
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I believe in criticism.
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My demographic of people have been very supportive.
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