Once youre in a particular country, and youre surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. – Evelyn Glennie
Music is about communication… it isnt just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting its something far, far deeper than that. – Evelyn Glennie
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve. – Evelyn Glennie
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we wont accept you, because we havent a clue – you know – of the future of a so-called deaf musician. And I just couldnt quite accept that. – Evelyn Glennie
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine