Sawhney's Quotes

#1. I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

Natascha McElhone

#2. I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.

George W. Bush

#3. Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

Jules Renard

#4. Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Rian Johnson

#5. It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

Dick Cavett

#6. Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

Nitin Sawhney

#7. Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.

Ilona Andrews

#8. To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.

Mohanbir Sawhney

#9. More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures ... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.

Nitin Sawhney

#10. Your subconscious protects you. It's all about listening to it.

Nitin Sawhney

#11. I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

Nitin Sawhney

#12. I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

Norah Jones

#13. Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it's very tiny - too small to cause much damage.

Michio Kaku

#14. A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death.

Kenwa Mabuni

#15. Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson

#16. We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.

Nitin Sawhney

#17. I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.

Rebecca Ferguson

#18. It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

Nitin Sawhney

#19. One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

Octavia Spencer

#20. You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

Nitin Sawhney