Loreena McKennitt: Wonder

Loreena McKennitt is Canadian musician and composer. Explore interesting quotes on wonder.

Loreena McKennitt: 42 quotes 3 likes

“There is a wonderful old Chinese proverb that I love, "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving".”

Loreena McKennitt

Celtic Women in Music interview (1999)
Context: There is a wonderful old Chinese proverb that I love, "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving". I think about my personal approach to musical projects much like a travel writer might approach the preparation for a book. You latch on to a certain theme or historical event and follow that into the unknown, while, at the same time, expanding on those themes.

Love , Travel

“One of the most wonderful and engaging things I've learned is that we are the culmination and extension of each other's histories and there is more that binds us together than separates us, and in discovering this, perhaps our needs are timeless and universal.
I have a very deep interest in religion and spirituality. I like the Sufi perspective, which suggests that it is better to participate in the world than to become detached from the world.”

Loreena McKennitt

Celtic Women in Music interview (1999)

World , Religion , History , Learning

“As you turned to go I heard you call my name,
You were like a bird in a cage spreading its wings to fly
"The old ways are lost," you sang as you flew
And I wondered why.”

Loreena McKennitt

The Visit (1991), The Old Ways

Way , Bird , Flying

“Suddenly I knew that you'd have to go
Your world was not mine, your eyes told me so
Yet it was there I felt the crossroads of time
And I wondered why.”

Loreena McKennitt

The Visit (1991), The Old Ways

World , Time