Art Quote by Roisin Murphy

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…

— Shane MacGowan

To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a…

— Andrea Corr

I'm an Irish guy who loves his music.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look…

— James Horner

I felt a connection to the traditional music in all the pubs in Dublin that we stopped into.

— Noah Reid

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they…

— Sinead O'Connor

As a music man, the musical tradition in Ireland is incredible; I could listen to it for hours.

— Noah Reid

Irish music makes you want to get up and jump around.

— Gary Moore

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

— Colum McCann

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

— Bernadette Devlin

I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary as I…

— Gavin Friday

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for…

— Nora Roberts