Deaf Quote by Evelyn Glennie Download Open image “I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.” — Evelyn Glennie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deaf Deaf Musician Happens Happens Deaf Music Musician Musician Happens Musician Musician
We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
It is a common misconception that deaf people can't enjoy music. — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
Not all deaf people are the same, every deaf person will have their own unique experience with music. — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness — John Green Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss. — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
It can be frustrating, playing a hearing person's perception of what a deaf person is like. — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
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… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That,… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women. — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I will love you till a mute women tells his deaf friend about a blind women that saw a girl with no legs walking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
