Hugh Hopper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
-- Hugh Hopper

#Art #Thinking #People
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.
-- Hugh Hopper

#Sound #Noise
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
-- Hugh Hopper

#Stuck #Mathematician #Graphic
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
-- Hugh Hopper

#Technology #Tools #Horror
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
-- Hugh Hopper

#Giving #Musician #Assuming

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Hugh Hopper famous quotes

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