Irish Songs Quotes

#1. We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

Caroline Corr

#2. It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

#3. Emily was lucky in many ways. She was lucky in the house she lived in, a house with three balconies, a cupola, banisters just right for sliding down, and the second bathtub in Yamhill County.

Beverly Cleary

#4. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

George S. Patton Jr.

#5. Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

Mark Shields

#6. The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

Matt Dillon

#7. It's great, the number of people that I'm reaching through the Internet - I've done some wonderful interviews - but I miss touching the bodies. I miss shaking hands, looking into people's faces and saying, 'Hello, how are you doing? Thank you for playing my music.'

Thelma Houston

#8. I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

John C. Reilly

#9. The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.

Kurt Fuller

#10. The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.

John McCormack

#12. The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

Bernadette Devlin

#13. We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

Sinead O'Connor

#14. I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

Mark Knopfler

#15. JARED: Please stop saying feces. It gives me the creeps.
JOURNEY: I wish I could, but I'm genetically unable to bow to your will.
JARED: I've noticed that...

Bijou Hunter

#16. Stay away from trouble when you can.

Kenny Rogers

#17. I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

Alber Elbaz

#18. Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.

Rocky Marciano

#19. The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Fiona Shaw

#21. What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...

Robert T. Kiyosaki