Evelyn Glennie Quotes

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.

My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them - anything to make sounds.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.