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I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. — Evelyn Glennie

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Music really is our daily medicine. — Evelyn Glennie

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops. — Evelyn Glennie

I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming. — Colin Powell

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound. — Evelyn Glennie

THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable. — Erik Larson

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy ... the diary is pretty full. — Evelyn Glennie

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right. — Evelyn Glennie

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone. — Evelyn Glennie

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience — Tim Minchin

The body's like a huge ear. It's as simple as that. — Evelyn Glennie

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

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music. — Evelyn Glennie

No, but you're the most beautiful thing I've seen in the morning sun. — Jamie McGuire

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know. — 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. — Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that. — Evelyn Glennie

And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world. — Algernon Blackwood

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. — Evelyn Glennie

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

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. — Evelyn Glennie

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

My goal might be impossible for me. Even so ... I think it would be great if it came true. So I keep believing. — Natsuki Takaya

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin

That day we held our hands and each other was indeed a beautiful dream. But, we all wake up in the end. — Luke Blaise Pereira

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem. — Evelyn Glennie

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

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

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

I've kept a diary since I was 11. — Evelyn Glennie

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

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

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

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

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late. — Evelyn Glennie

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important. — Evelyn Glennie

If all you do is sit and read, all you get is smart and soft. — Scott Carpenter

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

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. — John Locke

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.' — Corey Haim

Whatever's inside making me what I am, it's like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it. — James Dean

A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do. — Jim Kaat

Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light. — Kahlil Gibran