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Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music. -- Nobuo Uematsu
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music. -- Carter Burwell
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. -- Nobuo Uematsu
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time. -- Nobuo Uematsu
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves. -- Irvine Welsh
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. -- Huston Smith
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. -- Douglas Hyde
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland. -- Terri Windling
Celtic fans are some of the greatest supporters I know. -- Clarence Seedorf
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African. -- Joanna Newsom
There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose." -- Conor McGregor
Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world. -- Archie Macpherson
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players -- Jock Stein
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. -- Joanna Newsom
This Celtic football club is much more than a football club to a lot of people its a way of life- -- Robert Kelly
Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it. -- Paolo Maldini
Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love. -- Jock Stein
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. -- Terri Windling
Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries. -- Xavi
When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it. -- Glenn Quinn
Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that! -- Karen Marie Moning
Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic. -- Ann Cleeves
Tony McManus is the best Celtic guitarist in the world. -- John Renbourn
Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football. -- Frank Rijkaard
Being a Celtic supporter is not always easy, but it is always worthwhile. -- Fergus McCann
Celtic is a community institution the supporters are entitled to be proud of. -- Fergus McCann
Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else. -- Jock Stein
It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people. -- Fergus McCann
Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score -- Barry Davies
Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out. -- Natalie MacMaster
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I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing. -- Pierce Brosnan
Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today. -- Jim Lee
That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club. -- Fergus McCann
I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood. -- Gary Kemp
Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool. -- Michael Owen
Celtic supporters want to be proud of their Club. That's all they want. It is what they deserve. -- Fergus McCann
When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands. -- Alan Mullery
There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom. -- Greg Jackson
When Celtic faced closure in 1994. My feelings then were of disbelief and concern for my mates who were Celtic fans. -- Ally McCoist
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I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it. -- Sophie Kennedy Clark
I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club. -- Sean Fallon
I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. -- Archie Macpherson
The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters. -- Theodor Mommsen
I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard. -- Gordon Strachan
It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic. -- Gordon Strachan
If I can achieve for Celtic what I have achieved for Hibs, then I feel I will have done well for them. -- Jock Stein
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing. -- Sam Palladio
It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster. -- Charles Madigan
There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it. -- Enya
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him. -- John Eldredge
The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard. -- Andres Iniesta
I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too. -- Rod Stewart
I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans. -- Jose Mourinho
France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game. -- Jock Stein
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. -- Joseph Jacobs
I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it. -- Julian Lennon
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair. -- Aldous Huxley
There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds. -- Natalie MacMaster
When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable! -- Jose Mourinho
Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginningsÂ?. -- John Philip Newell
My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology.However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects. -- Michael Scott
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies. -- Grant Morrison
I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful. -- Nicolas Cage
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on. -- Ridley Scott
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Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again! -- Gerard Butler
You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. -- Rob Sheffield
I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good. -- Gordon Strachan
It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends. -- Jock Stein
I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on. -- Gordon Strachan
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Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs. -- Daryl Hall
I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs. -- Bonnie Raitt
Celtic 'is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come . . . Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling. -- Robertson Davies
As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down. -- Ted Leo
To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful. -- Loreena McKennitt
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power. -- John Maynard Keynes
I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding. -- Tanith Lee
And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries. -- Nobuo Uematsu
The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best. -- Xavi
Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum. -- Rosanne Cash
And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries. -- Nobuo Uematsu
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical. -- Skylar Grey
I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money. -- Caitlin Moran
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite. -- Anne Enright

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