Michael Nyman Quotes

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

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• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Attitude

• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Conclusion
  • Iraq

• You've got what looks like a year-end balance sheet. It's like memorizing an entire Excel file.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Balance
  • Memorizing
  • Excel file

• "I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Great
  • Catholic

• I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Past

• Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Calm
  • Surface
  • Minute

• Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Remind

• When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Remember
  • Focus
  • Moments

• I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Running
  • Feelings

• My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Giving
  • Spiritual
  • Identity

• I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Musician

• These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and probably see more talented musicians than the ones touring. When we first came down here I was like, "Wow I'm glad we didn't cut our teeth down here, there's so much competition." You're being challenged constantly because you're surrounded by these amazing musicians.

  

  Lzzy Hale
  • Competition
  • Musician
  • Holiday

• 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
  • Musician
  • Acquire
  • Scratches