Paul Hindemith Quotes

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

Paul Hindemith

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• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
  • Single

• I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Feel
  • Inspiration

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberty
  • Will
  • Return

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Real
  • Dad

• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Process
  • First
  • Learned

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• I like Drake's stuff.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Drake

• I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Book

• I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Say
  • Mood
  • Swings

• A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Nature
  • Father

• A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • Book
  • Single

• The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;The chest contrived a double debt to pay,A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Night
  • Door
  • Wall

• When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Business
  • Sports

• Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Country

• Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Never

• Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Souls

• Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

  

  Paul Hindemith
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Noise