Music
- Bell X1 are from Celbridge, County Kildare
- Blood or Whiskey, punk rock/irish music band originate from Leixlip
- Luka Bloom is from Newbridge
- Joseph Doyle, bassist from Irish band The Frames is from Allenwood
- Graham Hopkins, drummer with The Frames, The Swell Season, and Therapy? is from Clane
- Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006 winner and singer-songwriter lived in Milltown until he moved to Australia.
- Jack Lukeman, otherwise known as Jack L, is from Athy
- Donal Lunny was raised in Newbridge.
- MayKay, lead singer of Fight Like Apes, is a native of the county
- Miracle Bell, Indie-pop band, hail from Naas.
- Christy Moore, folk musician, was born in Newbridge.
- Paul Quinn, lead singer of the rock band No Sweat, hailed from Kilcock
- Liam O'Flynn from the band Planxty is from Kill
- Damien Rice was born in Celbridge
- Super Extra Bonus Party, Choice Music award winners, are from Newbridge
- Heidi Talbot is from Kill
- Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood owns a home in the area
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“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
My music shows ye have your closes,
And all must die.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle, dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.”
—Richard Shuckburg (1756–1818)