#la

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#climbed #function #i #instruments #last

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#black #had #huts #i #lived

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

#allow #audience #form #four #happen

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#concerto #eminem #explore #i #like

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#combine #commissioned #composer #composers #creator

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#angela #care #everybody #had #handful

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#believe #bring #character #i #long

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#days #drag #early #had #head

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#away #because #ceiling #christine #died

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#age #avenue #dollars #get #high