Quotes About Scottish Music

#1. I grew up listening to Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius. Scottish music cast a huge influence on me.

Withered Hand

#2. I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Carter Burwell

#3. I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.

Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

#4. The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.

Joe Goddard

#5. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#6. Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

Karen Salmansohn

#8. Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

Moby

#9. Disappear where? You know what they say: Curiosity killed the mutant bird kid. But I couldn't help myself.

James Patterson

#10. Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Evelyn Glennie

#11. Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

Joseph Girzone

#12. The theme of the Bible is not that the world's not messy but that God's at work in the mess.

Matt Chandler

#13. Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fresno?"
"Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

Richelle Mead

#14. An hour later and a faint movement caught my eye. Mum was weakly flapping her hand, beckoning me to her. I had no idea how long she had been trying to attract my attention. As I bent over to catch her last words she whispered, 'turn that bloody music off

Laura Marney

#15. Ly-di-ah! I sit beneath your window, laaaass, singing 'cause I loooove your a - "
"For the love of St. Francis of Assisi, someone call a vet. There is an injured animal screaming in pain outside," Charlotte interrupted the flow of music in ill-humor.

Michelle M. Pillow

#16. Today they're ordering you to marry, tomorrow they'll hand you a machine gun and order you to start shooting people randomly, how about that?

Ellie Midwood

#17. Geordie stepped forward and took her hand. "I hope you're not tired, because I intend to keep you on my arm until the music stops.

Amy Jarecki

#18. This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Sex and love are what make the world go round. It's the heart of poetry and music.

Vonnie Davis

#20. I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

James McAvoy

#21. His ability to make me feel like this huge invisible void pisses me off. The way he pauses to chew on the tip of his pen pisses me off. Just last night, those same lips that are wrapped around the tip of his ugly red pen were making their way up my neck.

Colleen Hoover

#22. New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that comes out the other end doesn't make you want to kill yourself
you're not drunk enough.

Bill Maher

#23. Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Edgar Meyer

#24. Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.

Randall Munroe