J.H. Wyman Quotes

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound.

What's a hero if not for its journey.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly.

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

A lot of people plan for failure, but they don't plan for success, and that's a big problem, especially in the TV world 'cause you're trying to find out what your show is.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

The future that I see celebrates those types of like-minded ideals and ideas. I don't know what's coming, but I know that we're not going to get knocked out so easy.

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

People get nervous when things move to Friday. Friday has become a landscape where shows just don't do very well as business for the network.

You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.

You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.

The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe.

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

I don't make any money.