Evelyn Glennie Quotes

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.

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

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

The body is an amazing system.

I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

Music is an important thing of energy. And there are a lot of wonderful aspects that come with it and vibrations, the physical vibrations, the movement of notes through an instrument and creating a wave that resonates into our spirit.

Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's the thing to tell the people.

Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from a groovy painting, but music and sound seem to travel along vibrations, you know the whole thing with mantras is to repeat and repeat those sounds... it's vibrations in everything like prayers and hymns.

Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?