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Evelyn Glennie has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five…
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Music really is our daily medicine.
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The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to…
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A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
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And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we…
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Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to…
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Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
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Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.
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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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I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
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I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.
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Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
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The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men…
— Johannes Brahms
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... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's…
— Itzhak Perlman
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I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as…
— Oscar Peterson
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The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The…
— Unknown Author
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
— Robert Schumann
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If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
— Leila Josefowicz
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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…
— Evelyn Glennie
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that…
— Twyla Tharp
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After recording the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven concertos, I felt that all my ambitions had really come true.
— Vanessa Mae
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