Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin Quotes
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My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.
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I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
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I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
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I use my voice as an instrument.
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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.
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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.
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I joined my family's band, Clannad , as a teenager in 1980 to sing harmonies and play keyboards, but it wasn't musically challenging for me; I felt like an outsider. ... My split from Clannad two years later caused a conflict of loyalty for a time, because I went off with their manager Nicky Ryan, who had asked me to join Clannad in the first place.
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I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
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There might be one little thing that makes all the difference, one note or one word. The fine-tuning is all important, and you've got to stay there until you get it right ... That's why it can take years.
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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.
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The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
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The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
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As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
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When I left school, I had a list of priorities headed by 'marriage' and 'children'. That is how, I suppose, as a woman, you are brought up to think. At the same time, as I grew older, I told myself that if it happens, it happens, and that will be fine, but if it doesn't, that will be fine, too.
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I don't need a man in my life.
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There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
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The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
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I like to stay up-to-date with what's happening musically ... I wish people wouldn't think that such things were going to shock me. 'Wow! Does Enya really watch TV?'
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It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
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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.
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The Druids held the trees as very sacred.
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
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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.
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I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal ... all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.