Nico Muhly Quotes

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

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• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Food
  • Running
  • Improvement

• My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Age
  • Man
  • Change

• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  

  Jack Markell
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Me
  • Need
  • Socks

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • School
  • High
  • Problems

• It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Time
  • Long
  • Civilization

• Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Amazing
  • Style
  • Fight

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Industry

• I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Character
  • Destiny

• One lives but once in the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World

• The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Secrets
  • Peter Pan
  • Wizard Of Oz

• To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Long

• As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

  

  Oliver North
  • Safety
  • Lives
  • Responsible

• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Practice

• Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Saddened
  • Educated People

• The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

  

  Nico Muhly
  • Work
  • Score