Celtic Music Quotes

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

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Pieces, Celtic, Music Is

  Press conference, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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

  Natalie MacMaster

  Crowds, Celtic, Mainstream

  "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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• 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

  Kind, Surfer, Celtic

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• And its 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

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• 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

  Love, Girl, Passion

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• 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

  Simple, Long, Mind

  Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Celtic, Interest

  Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider and Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• 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

  Song, Kids, Museums

  "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Song, Badass, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.

  John Renbourn

  Teenager, Thinking, Play

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

  Jim Lee

  Labels, Records, Today

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