Enya Quotes

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• The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
• We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.
• 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…
• 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…
• Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.
• Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
• A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on…
• I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me ...…
• 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…
• As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
• Fame and success are very different things.
• 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.
• I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.
• I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
• I don't need a man in my life.
• I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.
• I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.
• My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,
• 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…
• My first language is Gaelic.

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