Phil Coulter famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Phil Coulter -
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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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
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We need never be ashamed of our tears.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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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.
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The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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