Michael Nyman quotes
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“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.”
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.”
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“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 NymanSource : "He's got that thinking feeling". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.
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“I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.”
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Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
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“I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.”
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