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"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."
"Are you going to come along quietly, or am I going to have to use ear plugs?"
"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion."
"Policemen are numbered in case they get lost."
"A lot of learning can be a little thing."
"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."
"If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it."
"On the Ning Nang NongWhen the cows go bong!"
"God made night But Man made darkness."
"Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite."
"A song is communicating with people. Entertainment is a different area."
"I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing."
"I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself."
"Ronnie is like the King of Ireland, and we are his subjects."
"Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record."
"One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it."
"Rory's death really upset me. I heard about it just before we went on stage, and it put a damper on the evening. I can't say I knew him that well, but I remember meeting him in our offices once, and we spent an hour talking. He was such a nice guy and a great player."
"So these couple of kids come up, who's me and my mate, and say 'How do you get your sound Mr. Gallagher?' and he sits and tells us. So I owe Rory Gallagher my sound."
"Rory's death is a tragic loss of a great musician and a very good friend..."
"The man who got me back into the blues."
"An uncompromisingly serious musician."
"I'm a strong-minded woman, but I don't try to deny that I'm a female in any way."
"I’m very close to my mum. She has a strong faith that gives her this amazing sense of peace. I admire her; she's a very strong woman."
"My boyfriend—that I used to live with—was a painter and his friend was a sculptor and, like many people who go to Art College and get diplomas, they found it very difficult to be recognized outside of Limerick. They'd come to Dublin and put on exhibitions and get no support at all. Artists who live outside Dublin also find it harder to get financial assistance from establishments like the Arts Council. It's the same thing in music, in terms of support. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that Dublin has the media on its side and it pumps out this notion that Dublin is the centre of the universe, which it obviously isn't. It definitely never was for us."
"I always liked Doc Martens with really messed-up style, but at least I was thinking that my mind was more important than my body, anyway."
"When you're famous so young, become a millionaire overnight, people think you're going to crash and burn and be such a mess. I have my kids and Don."
"One of the things I always miss, is the pub culture You know, the atmosphere, the music, the craic, all the things you won't find anywhere else."
"I just always loved Yeats, him as a human. He was so passionate and just wrote what he felt."
"They weren't mainstream and beautiful and attractive, visually (the Smiths, the Cure and Depeche Mode). I thought they were different and when I was a teenager I liked the idea that what you told was more important than what you appeared."
"Another mother's breaking Heart is taking over When the violence causes silence We must be mistaken."
"It's the same old theme Since nineteen-sixteen In your head, in your head, they are fighting With their tanks, and their bombs And their bombs, and their guns In your head, in your head they are crying In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie What's in your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie, oh"
"Oh my life is changing everyday In every possible way And oh my dreams It's never quite as it seems Never quite as it seems."
"And now I tell you openly You have my heart so don't hurt me You're what I couldn't find A totally amazing mind So understanding and so kind You're everything to me."
"And oh my dreams It's never quite as it seems 'Cause you're a dream to me Dream to me."
"This is just an ordinary day Wipe the insecurities away I can see that the darkness will erode Looking out the corner of my eye I can see that the sunshine will explode Far across the desert in the sky Beautiful girl Won't you be my inspiration? Beautiful girl Don't you throw your love around What in the world, what in the world Could ever come between us?"
"I'm knowing this could be our last event Jaweh, Jaweh, Jaweh I'm knowing I am your youngest descent I don't want to know your pain I don't want to play the game."
"I can't find a word to say to you I can't comprehend, I can't relate to you Plain to see your faith for me Take me higher angel fire Take me where I want to go Teach me things I need to know."
"Growing up in Ireland in the '90s, those songs were all over the radio, all of the time. We were not only proud that this quartet from Limerick were one of the biggest rock bands in the world, but that they were fronted by this badass, don't-give-a-fuck, non-conforming young woman that was a little bit intimidating, but also just so fucking... cool. [...] Who sang like her before? Who has been comparable to her since? In a world that has become increasingly difficult to uncover originality and uniqueness in music, her voice stood out like this weird, wonderful, otherworldly beacon. She was one of a kind, no doubt."
"The thing we remember the most about Dolores is the craic we had. She'd be sat on the bus ripping the piss out of you."
"When Dolores wrote a song, I'd generally have known what it was about. You knew the period it was written in and what had been going on in her life. We never once in the thirty years sat down and said, 'What's that about?' She hated being asked to explain her lyrics. It was very much, 'You decide what it's about'... What Dolores also had, was a very low boredom threshold. Two days into rehearsals, you'd look over and see that look on her face. She mightn't have said anything there and then but at seven in the evening you'd get a call from her asking, 'What did you think of today?' and before you could answer she’d go, 'It wasn’t rock enough.' She was always the metaller in the band."
"Fans were connected on such a personal level with Dolores—they’d hear her lyrics and apply them to what was going on in their own lives."
"Dolores is some of those people that, when you get into her inner circle, you see the spirit, the person that she was, and she was just so kind, so supportive... and in my career—in the long years that I've been in it—I have to say she's one of those people that would call me and I would come running, no matter what, and my wife knows that. We had a very strong connections in that. She represented everything that I inspired to be, in a beautiful way. We connected in a very strong way..."
"Only yesterday did I discover that her group, or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington. My wife came home from the police centre where she worked yesterday and told me the news. I got the song up on the laptop, watched the band singing, saw Dolores and listened to the words. The words are both majestic and also very real … The event at Warrington, like the many events that happened all over Ireland and Great Britain, affected families in a very real way and many people have become immune to the pain and suffering that so many people experienced during that armed campaign. To read the words written by an Irish band in such compelling way was very, very powerful."
"I’m saddened to hear of the death of Dolores O’Riordan at just 46. Her wonderful band recorded a moving song after the Warrington bomb in memory of two innocent victims, Johnathan Ball and my son Tim. RIP Dolores … I was completely unaware what it was about."
"Limerick is very very proud of [her]. As her teachers have been saying, she was a star that shone bright from the very beginning, and I wish her peace."
"Her kind personality and beautiful singing voice earned for her numerous admirers. It must be added that the numbers she rescued from the darkness of depression are impossible to count. No words are adequate to describe Dolores or to accurately state the influence for good she has been over the years."
"And as I see through the real you I'm falling straight into A thousand broken Mirrors I can't hide And outside the bright lights Can't hide the pain inside And I've broken a thousand mirrors"
"I'm dancing the seven veils Want you to pick up my scarf See how the black moon fades Soon I can give you my heart. I don't know no shame I feel no pain I can't see the flame But I do know Man-din-ka I do know Man-din-ka"
"I'll remember it And Dublin in a rainstorm And sitting in the long grass in summer Keepin' warm I'll remember it Every restless night We were so young then We thought that everything We could possibly do was right."
"You will rise You'll return The phoenix from the flame You will learn You will rise You'll return Being what you are There is no other Troy For you to burn."
"And I never meant to hurt you I swear I didn't mean Those things I said I never meant to do that to you Next time I'll keep my hands to myself instead."
"Oh, I love you God, I love you I'd kill a dragon for you I'll die But I will rise And I will return The Phoenix from the flame I have learned I will rise And you'll see me return Being what I am There is no other Troy For me to burn."
"No I wouldn't have pulled you to me No I wouldn't have kissed your face You wouldn't have begged me to hold you If we hadn't been there in the first place Ah but I know you wanted me to be there oh oh Every look that you threw told me so But you should've left the light on You should've left the light on And the flames burned away But you're still spitting fire Make no difference what you say You're still a liar You're still a liar."
"Maybe it sounds mean But I really don't think so You asked for the truth And I told you Through their own words They will be exposed"
"I'm walking through the desert And I am not frightened although it's hot I have all that I requested And I do not want what I haven't got"
"I have an invitation for you. Is there a celebration? No, I'm not inviting you to a celebration. I'm inviting you to a war... I'll lead you, if you have sheep, give them away If you have a family, leave them"
"In 1992, Sinéad performed Bob Marley’s “War” on Saturday Night Live, then proceeded to rip up a photo of Pope John Paul II on live TV, declaring, quote, “Fight the real enemy.” The move, a protest against systemic child abuse in the Catholic Church, of which she was a survivor, provoked widespread uproar. She addressed her SNL performance days later during an interview with Entertainment Tonight. (SINÉAD O’CONNOR: "Ireland has the highest incidence in Europe of child abuse. I experienced it myself. And I find his presence in Ireland, telling the young people of Ireland that he loved them, hilarious. At least when I studied the history, I found out that the people who were responsible for telling lies in the first place were at the Vatican, who, through permitting the invasion of countries and the destruction and murder of entire races of people in the name of God and for money, and then their subsequent overtaking of the educational systems of all the countries that they went into, led to distortion of historical fact.") AG: Sinéad O’Connor was an ally of the LGBTQ communities, marched for abortion rights decades before it was legalized in Ireland. She converted to Islam and started using the name Shuhada’ Sadaqat in 2018, alongside the name Sinéad O’Connor. She spoke out for Palestinian rights, respecting the Palestinian civil society call for BDS, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, once saying, quote, “on a human level, nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight. There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what … the Israeli authorities are doing,” Sinéad said."
"It’s funny because I live in Ireland and grew up in Ireland, but we just grew up watching American TV and American movies and listening to American music and stuff. I’ve always loved since I was a kid trying to do different accents, so it was just something that was kind of there. And then you work on specifically trying to make it sound from a certain region or whatever. I’ve been lucky that I guess I had a bit of an ear for doing an accent, which was good."
"When it comes to rock icons, there is certainly a place for Phil Lynott. In addition to his talents as a brilliant singer/songwriter and rightfully praised for his role as frontman of Thin Lizzy, it’s often forgotten just how good of a bass player Lynott was during his career. He earned acclaim for his pick work on the instrument and those hard-charged solos made popular during the band's exhilarating live sets."