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I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

~Dolores O'Riordan

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When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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It's very difficult to break in Europe unless you break in England, and it's very difficult to break in England if you're Irish.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

~Dolores O'Riordan

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Musician

Born: September 6th, 1971

Died: January 15th, 2018

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