Nyman Quotes & Sayings

The day I am unable to handle more than one woman is the day I die. Do you take me for a feeble old dotard? I'm a true son of Venus and Bacchus! - Caligula — Jessica Nyman

The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped. — Bill Bonner

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

War and tooth enameled
salted lemon childhoods
All colors run, none of us solid
Don't look for shadow behind me
I carry it within
I live cycles of light and darkness — Suheir Hammad

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point. — Ty Burrell

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it. — Lana Parrilla

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

What a man hates, he takes seriously. — Michel De Montaigne

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

Your will to stay gives miracles a reason to show up! — Anuranjita Kumar

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood. — Dante Alighieri

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr

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

You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead? — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them ... — Marilyn Manson

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City. — Michael Nyman

Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often. — Marie Kondo

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

But Jess was sliding breathlessly down into the waiting sky, so she couldn't find the words to tell TillyTilly that sisters was something about being held without hands, and the skin-flinch of seeing and simultaneously being seen. — Helen Oyeyemi

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied - chains us all irrevocably. — Star Trek The Next Generation