Hans Peter Quotes

#1. It is a fine thing, to set your sights on crystal towers and golden thrones," Hans Peter said quietly. "But first you had better see what lurks within those towers, and what sits on those thrones.

Jessica Day George

#2. Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter

Jessica Day George

#3. Working on my own vocals is something I've been avoiding. But, I'm constantly thinking of ways to be able to include my own vocals without getting embarrassed. Even John Lennon wasn't comfortable on hearing his voice.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#4. It's nice if you're making a regular pop or rock album and you get ten little songs. But I really try to make the album with one big story instead of ten small stories.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#5. Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Charles Dickens

#6. Growing up, I would have to say I loved 'Peter Pan' because I was fascinated by Captain Hook; I was fascinated by Hans Conried, who was an actor on screen and also a theatrical and television actor.

Jonathan Freeman

#7. I think most good music has got some kind of crossover-potential. It feels nice to know that there are more people than those into dance-music that are listening to what I've made.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#8. If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language

Hans-Peter Durr

#9. I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#10. But if you keep trying to fix the past and plan your future, you will never live today.

Marilyn Grey

#11. All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#12. I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#13. In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

James Wright

#14. You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.

Carrie Fisher

#15. When I talk to film students, I always say, 'Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,' because that's such a great learning tool.

Catherine Hardwicke

#16. The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative.

Habib Ali Al-Jifri

#17. The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#18. Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

#19. Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#20. When I'm working on something and I get to the point where I feel it getting interesting, that's my reward.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#21. There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

Olivia Culpo

#22. Sometimes it's a struggle to make everything work. I usually work on music from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. Then there are the family activities. Then I work again at night - from nine to as late as two.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#23. Never look back, never forget.

Jessica Day George

#24. Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes ... It is high time for us to focus our attention on the real problems which are threatening all of us - in fact, life on this planet.

Hans-Peter Durr

#25. When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.

Peter Hans Kolvenbach

#26. I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom