"I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician……" — Evelyn Glennie

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

"I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf."

— Evelyn Glennie

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44 Quotes by Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three,…
Music really is our daily medicine.
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice…
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,…
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was…
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.
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.
Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have…

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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the… — Albert Bandura
Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of… — Roseanne Barr
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. — Marc Bolan
How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not… — Hsu Yun
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace… — Chinua Achebe
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly… — Oscar Wilde
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives… — Orison Swett Marden
Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one… — Rajneesh
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. — William Osler
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. — Francis Quarles
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends. — William Shakespeare

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