Top 1200 Irish Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.

I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

My name is a form of an Irish/Gaelic name that means 'Red King.'

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.

I was always into pop music, Destiny's Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn't all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

The MTC is known for singing music by great master composers, hymns, American music, Broadway numbers, popular songs, and inspirational music. If the audience doesn't like one genre, they need only wait for the next number.

Before I play matches I'm always switching myself on. That's why I have that walk-on music - Two Steps From Hell - they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on I'm switched on and I'm ready for a brawl!

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Even if I don't think in visuals about the music while I'm doing it, after the music is finished, it could be great to incorporate that in the live show or doing my own music videos.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Dance has always just been an extension of music for me. It's about putting my music into motion. It's just another dimension that I tap into with my music that not many artists do anymore.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture.

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.