Scottish Quotes

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

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

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

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

[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.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

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

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

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

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being Scottish and the Welsh think about being Welsh, but the English don't really care. But the French think about it all the time, it's an absolute preoccupation.

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.

I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.

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!

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.

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

Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

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

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.