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

- Paul Hindemith

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 pa…

- Paul Hindemith

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.

- Paul Hindemith

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

- Paul Hindemith

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

- Paul Hindemith

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

- Paul Hindemith

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

- Paul Hindemith

Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can nev…

- Paul Hindemith

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

- Paul Hindemith