Evelyn Glennie Quotes
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.
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I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.
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I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said. "It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me." "Don't worry," I said. "I do.
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It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart
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Can you love me again like you loved me before? This time I want you to love me much more.
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Your glow was the ailment to all my pain inside. I sat beside your body and asked your name, baby. Your fragrance made it hard to explain my plight of how you’re driving me insane.
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Picture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 men Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.
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Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.
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If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.
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You can't divide a business like a sack of apples.
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It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
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I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot.
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A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
