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I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Affects Always Am Bats Brain Dolphins Fascinated How Quite Really Sound Unconscious Wondered I Am

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Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Body Could Ears Form Hear Hearing Less More Through Touch

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If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

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Topics: Assume Cannot Five Four May Means See Someone Steps Them Three Walk Wheelchair

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Music really is our daily medicine.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Daily Medicine Music Our Really

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What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Everything Music Musician

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It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Actually Become Drum Explore Fact In Fact Instrument Interesting Notice Surface Things Through Tiny Want You Your

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If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Allow Arm Drum Dynamic Effort Feel Go Hand Just Last Less Let Go More Much Simply Stick Suddenly Support System

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The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Actually Allow Audience Form Four Happen How Huge Huge Part Listening Me Never Own Part Performers Piece Plays Privacy Really Seems Tightrope Walk Walls Way Will Your

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I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Like Sparkle

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Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Contrast Dry Experience Getting More Much Possibility Real Same Sound Way You

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Musician

Born: July 19th, 1965

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