Brendan Gleeson Quotes

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

Touring is great because I love to travel.

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I love seeing new places and meeting new people. I'm sort of addicted to traveling.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.

I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

I feel warm toward my Irish side, but I don't know the country or the people. Hearing a traditional Irish fiddle, I feel very connected to Ireland, but that's a nostalgia many people feel who aren't Irish at all.

Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.

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

I'm a travel enthusiast.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

I admire traveling; I appreciate it a lot.