Music Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

— Hermann Hesse

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

— Hermann Hesse

“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at…

— Hermann Hesse

“I like listening to music, but only the kind you play, absolute music, the kind that makes you feel that someone is…

— Hermann Hesse

“Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that.” “Indeed. Then what does it depend…

— Hermann Hesse

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of…

— Hermann Hesse

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that…

— Hermann Hesse

“Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos.…

— Hermann Hesse

“[...] ne aflam in cu totul alte raporturi fata de muzica clasica decat oamenii din epocile care au creat-o; veneratia spiritualizata si…

— Hermann Hesse

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind…

— Hermann Hesse

“And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafés, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who…

— Hermann Hesse

“The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded…

— Hermann Hesse

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with…

— Hermann Hesse

“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then…

— Hermann Hesse

“These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences…

— Hermann Hesse

“You told me," he said, "that you love music because it isamoral. That's all right with me. But in that case you…

— Hermann Hesse

“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always…

— Hermann Hesse

“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés…

— Hermann Hesse

“And so the German spirit, carousing in music, in wonderful creations of sound, and wonderful beauties of feeling and mood that were…

— Hermann Hesse

“O music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it; it takes possession…

— Hermann Hesse

“It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two or three notes of the piano the door was opened of…

— Hermann Hesse

“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory…

— Hermann Hesse

“Well," he said with equanimity, "you see, in my opinion there is no point at all in talking about music. I never…

— Hermann Hesse