Top 21 Michael Nyman Quotes
#1. I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.
Charlemagne Palestine
#2. Leaning forward, Cinder spoke very clearly. "I have a computer in my brain," she said. "So while I'm not going to tell you that I am the smartest or, by any means, the most experienced person in this room, I would suggest that no one use my youth to believe that I am also ignorant.
Marissa Meyer
#3. The quiet is fretful, unnatural. It's what a mouse must feel as it steps from its hole and into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above.
Anthony Doerr
#4. Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?
John Gould Fletcher
#5. I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.
Michael Nyman
#6. It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
Ali Al-Sistani
#7. I've been to a lot of places while touring, but I'd have to say Switzerland was my favorite.
Drake Bell
#8. The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.
Samael Aun Weor
#9. There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
Michael Nyman
#10. Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
Ezra Stiles
#11. I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.
Sara Sheridan
#12. Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.
Hank Nuwer
#13. You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me.
Jerry Spinelli
#14. There is only one thing that could make me near homicidal. Yeah - this is called My Proper Tea.
Doc Brown
#15. The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
Orrin Woodward
#16. We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
Chief Joseph
#17. I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
Michael Nyman
#18. I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?
Michael Nyman
#19. I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
Michael Nyman
#20. OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
Ambrose Bierce
#21. I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.
Michael Nyman
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