Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I like listening to music, but only the kind you play, absolute music, the kind that makes you feel that someone is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that.” “Indeed. Then what does it depend… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“[...] ne aflam in cu totul alte raporturi fata de muzica clasica decat oamenii din epocile care au creat-o; veneratia spiritualizata si… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafés, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“O music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it; it takes possession… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And so the German spirit, carousing in music, in wonderful creations of sound, and wonderful beauties of feeling and mood that were… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two or three notes of the piano the door was opened of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Well," he said with equanimity, "you see, in my opinion there is no point at all in talking about music. I never… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image