8 Quotes & Sayings By Damien Rice

Damien Rice is a British singer-songwriter, musician and composer. His first album, O, was released in 1997 and achieved huge commercial success. He has released seven albums to date, O (1997), The Siren (1999), 9 (2002), Man On a Wire (2004), My Favourite Faded Fantasy (2008), The Map of the Problematical (2011) and Blood from a Bone (2015). He received the Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 2008. His work has been cited as "the most remarkable of the decade" by Time Magazine Read more

In 2013 he was listed among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, and has been ranked as one of the greatest singers on record by both Q Magazine and Mojo Magazine.

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Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand. Damien Rice
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My eyes were closed, they're open now Damien Rice
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world. Damien Rice
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much. Damien Rice
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I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest. Damien Rice
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I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either. Damien Rice
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society. Damien Rice