Caroline Corr Quotes

The strange thing is I can't play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff as well as I ought to, whereas I think I have got a good ear for blues, the tonality of it and so on.

I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

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

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

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

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

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland.

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.

I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.

I always thought of myself as more of a rhythm player than a big soloist.

The fact that I'm a fifth of Punch Brothers... that's lucky for me because I feel like I get to operate in the context of one of the great string bands. There's just not another string band I would rather be in, and i'm just compelled to make music for and with string bands. It's what I know, and it's kind of like who I am.

You may not hear much bluegrass on the surface of my music, but I feel the emotion I put in a song comes from bluegrass. Bluegrass taught me to interpret a song, not just sing it.

I was always into bluegrass as a kid. Basically, I like music that has a basic simple structure and that has a lot of emotion and feel. Bluegrass and other old time music fits the bill, as well as what became punk - they both kind of have a similar framework.