Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Aoife O'Donovan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Aoife O'Donovan.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Aoife O'Donovan is an Irish-American singer and Grammy award-winning songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer for the string band Crooked Still and she also co-founded the Grammy Award-winning female folk trio I'm with Her. She has released three critically acclaimed studio albums: Fossils (2013), In the Magic Hour (2016), and Man in a Neon Coat: Live from Cambridge (2016), as well as multiple noteworthy EPs, including Blue Light (2010), Peachstone (2012), In the Magic Hour: Solo Sessions (2019), and Bull Frog's Croon (2020). She also spent a decade contributing to the radio variety shows Live from Here and A Prairie Home Companion. Her first professional engagement was singing lead for the folk group The Wayfaring Strangers.

American - Singer | Born: November 18, 1982

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I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

Aoife O'Donovan

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

Aoife O'Donovan

You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.

Aoife O'Donovan

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

Aoife O'Donovan

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

Aoife O'Donovan

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

Aoife O'Donovan

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

Aoife O'Donovan

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

Aoife O'Donovan

Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in." Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops." If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.

Aoife O'Donovan

I think the consistency comes from the parts.

Aoife O'Donovan