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“I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?”

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Shane MacGowan, born on December 25, 1957, is an influential musician from Ireland. Known for his distinctive voice and creative talent, he has made significant achievements in the punk rock and Irish music genres. more

“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 it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.”

People Thinking Knows Mean Song Sex Realizing Feet Subjects Music Is Balls Yeah Handle Guts Rebel Comical Dance Music Innuendo Irish Music

Author:Shane MacGowan

“I'm not going to waste my time trying 'break' America, you know what I mean? Too many people have died trying to break America. America doesn't break unless it wants to.”

People Knows Want Trying Mean America Break Waste Died My Time Wasting My Time

Author:Shane MacGowan

“There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.”

Ifs Art Feelings Enjoy Indescribable Great Feelings

Author:Shane MacGowan

“I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Play Age Stars Rocks Singing Retired Rock Star Pubs Irish Music

Author:Shane MacGowan

“Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.”

Real Character Used Fighting Courses Bits Interesting Involved Used To Be Dancer Wrestling Ballet Bloody Overweight Ballet Dancer

Author:Shane MacGowan

“The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his dream now? When is a change going to come - as Sam Cooke said - for blacks in America? Anyone who does tell the truth gets a bullet in the head, y'know what I mean?”

Knows Mean Doe Said War Dream America Turns Rights Kings Politician Civil Rights Telling The Truth Bloody Bullets Luther Sam Cooke

Author:Shane MacGowan

“I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.”

Has Beens Age America Hate Hollywood I Hate Jazz Golden Bus Bloody Highways Hamburgers Golden Age Greyhounds Jazz Age Greyhound Bus

Author:Shane MacGowan

“I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.”

Way Believe Holy Don't Believe Ghost Friendly Holy Ghost Trinity Holy Trinity

Author:Shane MacGowan

“All I can do is go by the words of Christ, who was the only talker we had, for f - 's sake. Buddha didn't speak. The Holy Ghost didn't speak. But I think it all boils down to the same thing - it's all about unity, love, compassion.”

Thinking I Can Speak Christ Can Do Compassion Holy Unity Sake Ghost Holy Ghost Talkers

Author:Shane MacGowan

“It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.”

Kind Persons Dies Painful Debt

Author:Mark Helprin

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