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“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.”

Made Courses Century Jazz Folks Obvious Contact Exploring Classical Music Scottish Hybrid Folk Music Bluegrass

Author:Edgar Meyer

“,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.”

People Might Courses Football Soccer Parks Get Back Scottish Unwritten Unwritten Rules

Author:Billy Connolly

“Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.”

Form Turns Century Members Accepted Gentleman Scotland Scottish Masons Lodges Ascendancy

Book:The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry

Source: The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry

“I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.”

Funny Father Bits My Own Son Scottish Postman

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.”

Knows States Home Names Blood Terrible My Family Accents Scottish Family Name Tartan

Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!”

Ends Whole Character Scripts Scottish Rethinking

Author:Robert Carlyle

“I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.”

Feels Home Past Felt Roots Cooks Italian Foreigners Scottish Pasta

Author:Tom Conti

“My background is Scottish.”

Backgrounds Scottish

Author:Melissa George

“I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.”

People Feels Levels Honest Reputation Scottish Hardened Very True Honest People

Author:Rupert Friend

“[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.”

Believe Violent Brutal Scotland Scottish Superstitious Scots

Author:James McAvoy

“The poetic side of me is Scottish.”

Sides Poetic Scotland Scottish Scots

Author:Annie Lennox

“Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.”

Needs Country Theory Citizens Other Countries Scotland Scottish Scots

Author:Arthur Balfour

“Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.”

Giving Dies Hours Let Me Give Me Scotland Scottish One Hour

Book:Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems

Source: Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems

“Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.”

Together Huge Scottish Brooches

Author:Alexander Smith

“Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.”

People Lord Fine Dear Active Hills Touched Scottish Highlander Aberdeen

Book:Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861

Source: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861

“I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.”

Trying Has Beens Despair Experiments Obliged Scottish

Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.”

Believe I Believe Events Sight Possessed Scotland Scottish Trousers Highlander Future Events

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.”

Nations Horse Uncomfortable Scotland Scottish Great Nations

Author:Mel Gibson

“In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.”

Littles House Rooms Built Stones Extraordinary Range Furniture Scottish

Author:Stephen Gardiner

“I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.”

Laughing Humour Doom Indulgence Gloom Scottish Undercut Doom And Gloom

Author:Shirley Henderson

“My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.”

Mother Father Poor Doctors Blue Scottish Conqueror Diana William The Conqueror

Author:Celia Imrie

“Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.”

Knows Know How Accents Scottish

Author:Joey McIntyre

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