Loreena McKennitt quotes

“Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.”
-- Loreena McKennitt

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“For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old”
-- Loreena McKennitt

Source : Song: Ce Hé Mise le Ulaingt

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“Please remember me...”
-- Loreena McKennitt

Source : Song: Dante's Prayer

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“I'm not prepared to sacrifice my being engaged in the world for just any relationship.”
-- Loreena McKennitt

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“I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.”
-- Loreena McKennitt

Source : Song: All Souls Night

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“So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.”
-- Loreena McKennitt

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“I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.”
-- Loreena McKennitt

Source : Website notes to "The Mask And Mirror" on official site, loreenamckennitt.com.

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“To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.”
-- Loreena McKennitt

Source : "Times of Discovery". Interview with Anil Prasad, www.innerviews.org. 1991.

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“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.”

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“The art of life is loving and listening to one another.”

“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”

“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

“There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.”

“You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

“Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.”