Evelyn Glennie Quotes
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 expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Endangered species are our friends.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.
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Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.
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I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
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I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.
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No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.
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If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though...
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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 expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.
