Irish - Musician | September 6, 1971 - January 15, 2018
It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.
Dolores O'Riordan
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I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every,day. You're kind of thinking, 'Did I go home for seven years, or was that just a dream?'
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For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
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You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.
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The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.
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One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.
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I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don't particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that's a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer.
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It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.
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I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.
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When everybody's looking at you, it does your head in. When you're always on the inside, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.
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I guess the way to keep a grip on reality is just to take breaks in between albums like most normal bands do. Go home and be a person and hang out with your friends. Do separate things and get back to earth and write songs and go out there again.
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My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.
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