Caroline Corr Quotes

• In Ireland, it’s been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they’re Irish.

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• Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

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• And I’ve played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

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• A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it’s been good to be involved completely musically as well.

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• I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

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• But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I’m going to do.

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• I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

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• I really didn’t even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn’t a bad thing when I look back at it.

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• I mean, y’know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

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• I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

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• I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

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• I used to play the piano in the band, and so there’s some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

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• I’ve always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.

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• I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

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• I’m not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

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• Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn’t go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn’t particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

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• Oh yeah, we all write. That’s what’s great about when you have basics in piano.

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• It’s been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it’s actually working out okay.

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• Our parents were musicians.

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• There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

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Caroline Corr (31)

Birth:	17th March, 1973
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Drummer, Singer

About

Caroline Georgina Corr was born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. She is an Irish singer and drummer for the Celtic folk rock band The Corrs. In addition to the drums, Corr plays the bodhrán, percussions and piano. Caroline and her siblings were exposed to music from a very young age, and travelled with Jean and Gerry to gigs in the family estate car. She was taught the piano by her father Gerry at a very early age like her other siblings.

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