Quote #181225
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
Evelyn Glennie
About This Quote
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Interpretation
Glennie frames her work—often understood as expanding how audiences and institutions think about listening, disability, and musical participation—as a long-term, collective project. The “seeds” suggest initiatives, examples, and changed attitudes she has planted through performance, advocacy, and education. By emphasizing that the “journey…cannot be undertaken in isolation,” she rejects the myth of the solitary pioneer: lasting cultural change requires successors, collaborators, and communities who continue the work after the originator. The quote thus reads as both hope and charge: progress is measured not only by personal achievement but by what others are enabled and inspired to carry forward.




