"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."
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Ronnie Drew
Joseph Ronald "Ronnie" Drew (16 September 1934 – 16 August 2008) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and guitarist who achieved international fame during a fifty year career recording with The Dubliners
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