Enya Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Enya
I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me ... because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up ... making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them. — Enya
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. — Enya
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you. — Enya
Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically. — Enya
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it. — Enya
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain. — Enya
It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle. — Enya
I don't need a man in my life. — Enya
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time. — Enya
Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing ... You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result. — Enya
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that. — Enya
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from. — Enya
I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music. — Enya
The moon upon the ocean
is swept around in motion
but without ever knowing
the reason for its flowing
in motion on the ocean
the moon still keeps on moving
the waves still keep on waving
and I still keep on going — Enya
To leave the thread of all time
And let it make a dark line
In hopes that I can still find
The way back to the moment
I took the turn and turned to
Begin a new beginning
Still looking for the answer
I cannot find the finish
It's either this or that way
It's one way or the other
It should be one direction
It could be on reflection
The turn I have just taken
The turn that I was making
I might be just beginning
I might be near the end.
— Enya
Long, long journey through the darkness
Long, long way to go
But what are miles across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home? — Enya
You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is — Enya
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for? — Enya
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. — Enya
Place a name upon the night
One to set your heart alight
And to make the darkness bright
Paint the sky with stars. — Enya
I am not reclusive. I just have a private life. — Enya
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me. — Enya
My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter. — Enya
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. — Enya
Hope has a place in a lover's heart. — Enya
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. — Enya
My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live. — Enya
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal. — Enya
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church. — Enya
Each heart is a pilgrim,
Each one wants to know
The reason why the winds die
And where the stories go.
Pilgrim, in your journey
You may travel far,
For pilgrim it's a long way
To find out who you are... — Enya
The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh. — Enya
The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can't but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching. — Enya
My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music, — Enya
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place. — Enya
One look at love
and you may see
it weaves a web
over mystery,
all ravelled threads
can rend apart
for hope has a place in the lover's heart.
Hope has a place in a lover's heart. — Enya
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked. — Enya
The Druids held the trees as very sacred. — Enya
It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas. — Enya
There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it. — Enya
I use my voice as an instrument. — Enya
I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve. — Enya
I can only be who I am. — Enya
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung. — Enya
I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. — Enya
When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do. — Enya
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. — Enya
It's a noisy environment we all live in, whether it's traffic or the workplace, so it's very difficult to think about your life in general. A lot of people are afraid to do that. They like to hide behind their work and not face up to a big problem in their life. — Enya
I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe. — Enya
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. — Enya
People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord. — Enya
Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can. — Enya
Fame and success are very different things. — Enya
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. — Enya
When there's a shadow, you follow the sun.
When there is love, then you look for the one.
And for the promises, there is the sky.
And for the heavens are those who can fly. — Enya
I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone. — Enya
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. — Enya
People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true. — Enya
Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free. — Enya
I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing. — Enya
There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting. — Enya
The fans are very, very loyal. They're always saying, 'When is the next album?' They know when I finish in the studio it's got to be a few years before the next album. — Enya
I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way. — Enya
I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me. — Enya
I have had death threats from people with fixations. — Enya