Terri Windling Quotes

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

The fact is that I loved being in England.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

I just love being in the U.K.

I love London and British women.

I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

I love London, I love the British people.

For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it?

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.