Nomi Quotes & Sayings

I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous. — Michael Stipe

Everytime I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really. - Nomi — Miriam Toews

It was the first time in my life that I had been aware of my own existence. It was the first time in my life I had realized that I was alive. And if I was alive, then I could die, and I mean forever. Forever dead. Not heaven, not eternal life on some other plane ... just darkness, curtain, scene. Permanently. And that was the key to my new religion, I figured. That's why life was so fucking great. I want that day back. I want to be nine again and be told, Nomi: someday you'll be gone, you'll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There's no other place to be. This world is good enough for you because it has to be. Go ahead and love it. — Miriam Toews

Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity. — Nomi Eve

There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing. — Klaus Nomi

Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and collaborative efforts. Imagine a country where corporate losses arent socialized, while gains are captured by an exclusive minority. Imagine a country run as a democracy, from the bottom up, not a plutocracy from the top down. Richard Wolff not only imagines it, but in his compelling, captivating and stunningly reasoned new book, Democracy at Work, he details how we get there from here - and why we absolutely must. — Nomi Prins

I'm more of a Cristal Connors than a Nomi Malone. — Brad Goreski

I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer. — Klaus Nomi

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it. — Klaus Nomi

The White Horse video which was directed by Marco Ovando started off with a biker theme. Once Ava Sanjurjo came in as stylist along with Marco & I it really took it's own shape. It was all very improvised but wound up paying homage to NY and night life. People say it reminds them of a Guess ad which I love! — Nomi Ruiz

My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network. — Mamie Gummer

The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy. — Klaus Nomi

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning. — Klaus Nomi

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era. — Klaus Nomi

Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible. — Klaus Nomi

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art. — Klaus Nomi

There are definitely many adventures on the road withJessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by 2 taxi drivers in Moscow. They drove me over 2 hours out of town till I started to cry then they drove me 3 more hours finally to my hotel! — Nomi Ruiz

Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself. — Klaus Nomi

I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself. — Klaus Nomi

People are so nice to each other on holidays ... especially at Christmas. Why don't people beat up each other at Christmas? Now that would be fun! — Klaus Nomi

She points to where he went and looks to the neutral Baumen. "He - he did that to me on purpose! He's insane. Literally, insane!"
The munchkin just shrugs. "Welcome aboard!" and returns unconcerned to his work. — Nathan Reese Maher

I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is. — Klaus Nomi

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension. — Klaus Nomi

Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody behind me, I told him. And he said, reassuringly, that someday there may be. — Miriam Toews

I love to dance to Robyn, Nicki Minaj and Boney M. — Nomi Ruiz

I go on stage and people like what I look like; as soon as I'm outside I feel like I have to hide, because people laugh at me, because of the way I look. Now, I use this look, it works for me, I even exaggerate it. I used to hide my large forehead, but now I'm selling it. — Klaus Nomi

It takes a pillage. — Nomi Prins

People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light'. — Nomi Ruiz

I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous. — Nomi Prins

The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful. — Klaus Nomi

I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me and making me believe in my work. — Klaus Nomi

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, — Nomi Prins

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them. — Klaus Nomi

I heard Tash say: Nomi, you're sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me that some people can leave and some can't and those who can will always be infinitely cooler than those you can't and I'm one of the ones who can't because you're one of the ones who did and there's this old guy in a wool suit sitting in an empty house who has no one but me now thank you very, very, very much. — Miriam Toews

Hanging from every corner, above every window, standing on every shelf and tabletop, were dozens of handmade birdcages. Nomi had crafted them all, mostly out of old fishing twine, scraps of nets, and chicken wire. Woven in between the bars of the cages were bits of seashells, crab shells, pebbles, and driftwood she had scavenged along the beach. In a pinch she had made a few out of old clothes hangers she had scissored apart and woven together with strips of a negligee or shirt. Each one was personal, each one was unique, each one was a story — Brooke Warra

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply. — Klaus Nomi

Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity. — Nomi Eve

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules. — Klaus Nomi

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. — Klaus Nomi

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this. — Klaus Nomi

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end. — Nomi Ruiz

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history. — Klaus Nomi

The word legend comes from the Latin "legere," which means "to read." The word fiction comes from the Latin "fingere," which means "to form." From fingere we also get the word fingers. We form things with our fingers. The word history comes from the Greek "istor," which means "to learn" or "to know." I believe in original etymology. I believe that fiction is formed truth. I believe that history is a way of knowing all of this. I believe that legend is how we read between the lines. — Nomi Eve

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that. — Klaus Nomi

Jasper!" Casey shouts, startling the young woman. "My cargo is talking to me! — Nathan Reese Maher

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other. — Klaus Nomi

I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth. — Klaus Nomi

I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really hands on with Morgan & Andrew while writing and producing the record. — Nomi Ruiz