Paul Hindemith Quotes

#1. The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

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#2. Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

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#3. People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

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#4. This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop

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#5. Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

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#6. My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

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#7. Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

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#8. There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

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#9. The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting

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#10. Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

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#11. There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

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