Quotes About Celtic Music

#1. Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

Sam Palladio

#2. I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

Bonnie Raitt

#3. And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Nobuo Uematsu

#4. When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

Terri Windling

#5. As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

Nobuo Uematsu

#6. There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

Natalie MacMaster

#7. Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

Jim Lee

#8. Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

Natalie MacMaster

#9. I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

#10. Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Nobuo Uematsu

#11. There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Nobuo Uematsu

#12. Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

Rosanne Cash

#13. The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

William Fogg Osgood

#14. I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.

Loreena McKennitt

#15. I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.

Mike Yaconelli

#16. A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Melissa De La Cruz

#17. Pray God that no professional will ever captain England.

Martin Hawke

#18. I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

Anne McCaffrey

#19. I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

John Heilpern

#20. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

Boris Pasternak

#21. There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

John Milton

#22. Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Camille Paglia

#23. Outside my window, the British public traded crack, slept with itself for money, and fought drunken battles it couldn't remember in the morning.

Hugh Laurie

#24. I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Carter Burwell

#25. I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like ... except for Show Tunes.

Terri Windling

#26. This is dying - I know because I've done it before.

Stephen King

#27. As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

Ted Leo

#28. My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

Skylar Grey