Paul Anka famous quotes

04-17-2025

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
-- Paul Anka

#Moving On #Dirt #Moved On
I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
-- Paul Anka

#Travel #Way #My Way
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

#Integrity #Mean #Knowing
The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.
-- Paul Anka

#Technology #Stuff
My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
-- Paul Anka

#Littles #Towns #Ottawa
I respect Jay-Z. I like him.
-- Paul Anka

#I Like Him
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
-- Paul Anka

#Country #Perspective #Canada
I believe in criticism.
-- Paul Anka

#Believe #Criticism #I Believe
I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.
-- Paul Anka

#Thinking #Israel #Ideas
You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.
-- Paul Anka

#Giving Up #Grandmother #Laughing
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.
-- Paul Anka

#Song #Men #Feels
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.
-- Paul Anka

#Song #Teenage #Stupid
The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.
-- Paul Anka

#Trends #Able
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes. ... The thing is to be able to outlast the trends. ... They are actually manufactured entertainment groups. They are a product of technology. What you are listening to is technology.
-- Paul Anka

#Song #Teenage #Stupid
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
-- Paul Anka

#Song #Teenage #Stupid
And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
-- Paul Anka

#Inspirational Life #Finals #Way
There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.
-- Paul Anka

#Profound #Doubt #Spit

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