Phil Coulter quotes
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“Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.”
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“Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.”
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“It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn't have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had grown up with, songs with great melodies. After 35 years as a songwriter, I appreciate the value of a good melody because I know how hard it is to write one. So I presented them in a new way, with piano, keyboards, strings, and a contemporary rhythm section. I just treated the melody with a bit of dignity and a bit of style.”
-- Phil Coulter
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“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
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“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986
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