Evelyn Glennie Quotes

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Evelyn Glennie

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• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Up
  • Running
  • Hand

• I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Hell
  • Coat
  • Fur

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Sleep
  • Fly
  • Ice Cream

• In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • War
  • Peace
  • Suffering

• Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Money
  • Short

• It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Parents
  • Desire

• Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

  

  Sally Field
  • History
  • Small
  • Year

• I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lost

• I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Stories

• I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • May
  • Star

• When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Guy

• My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

  

  Bryce Courtenay
  • Different
  • Job
  • Author

• There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Life
  • Real

• Some people are jerks, and some people aren't.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People

• I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Interesting
  • Communication
  • Music Is