Paul Hindemith Quotes
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.
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I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
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You know, women are acting the way they want to act now. Years ago they would hide it in the way they dressed, the way they speak, even the way they act in bed. Today, they're doing the same thing, but they're dressing the way they want to be treated and, when you're with them, acting the way they want to act. And you know, honesty is the best policy. I love that.
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There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.
