Quotes by Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie

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.

Composer

Pieces

Thinking

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

High Profile

Profile

Way

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.

London

Musician

Royal

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

Instinct

Kind

Scottish

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.

Hearing

Losing

Years

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

Events

Real

Trying

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

Body

Ears

Hearing

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

Body

Hearing

Silence

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.

Holiday

People

Watches

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

Brain

Dolphins

Echoes

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Assumption

Balance

Beach

Beautiful

Blood

Body

Brain

Challenges

Collaboration

Communication

Composer

Country

Deaf

Diaries

Differences

Diversity

Dolphins

Ears

Echoes

Educational

Embrace

Events

Happens

Hearing

High Profile

Holiday

Home

Inspiration

Instinct

Interesting

Isolation

Jobs

Journey

Kids

Kind

Kings

Knowing

Land

Late

Lessons

Littles

London

Losing

Lyrical

Mean

Medicine

Memories

Motivation

Musician

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Quotes by Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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