Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Enya
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish musician Enya.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
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.
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
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.
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
I don't need a man in my life.
I have had death threats from people with fixations.
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.
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.
My first language is Gaelic.
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
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.
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.
I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.
As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
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.
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
I can only be who I am.
I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.
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.
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.
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.
Fame and success are very different things.
I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
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?
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.
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.
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
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.
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.
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
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.
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.
The Druids held the trees as very sacred.
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.
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
I use my voice as an instrument.
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.
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.
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.
My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.
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.
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.
Place a name upon the night
One to set your heart alight
And to make the darkness bright
Paint the sky with stars.
The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.
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.
My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.
Hope has a place in a lover's heart.
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
Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.
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.
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.
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