Evelyn Glennie Quotes

• If we cannot spare some patience towards a piece of music or art, what hope do we have for showing it to another human being?

  Evelyn Glennie

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• A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we’ve commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Collaborating, Composers

• And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won’t accept you, because we haven’t a clue – you know – of the future of a so-called ‘deaf’ musician. And I just couldn’t quite accept that.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Music, London, Auditioned, Musician

• As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy… the diary is pretty full.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Ourselves, Diary

• A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

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• Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn’t really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

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  Tags in Music, Instincts, Traditional

• Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

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  Tags in Sound, Anything, Strike

• I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

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  Tags in Fascinated, Brain, Unconscious

• Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Self, Losing, Angry

• Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

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  Tags in Hearing, Body

• Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Real, Aim, Concerts

• Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

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• Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in People, Holidays

• I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Topics in Job, Work

  Tags in Self, Airport

• I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can’t hear the violins well.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Orchestra, Sounds

• I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Hope, Journey

• I didn’t decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Self, Musician

• I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn’t find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in World, Assumed, Possibly

• I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Like, Sparkle

• I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  Evelyn Glennie

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Evelyn Glennie (49)

Birth:	19th July, 1965
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Percussionist, Composer, Singer, Sound Engineer, Music Conductor

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