Volker Quotes & Sayings

I get a lot of emails where people are writing me their experiences, how they discovered my music, what they feel ... they motivate me to carry on with what I am doing. — Volker Bertelmann

I always felt strongly connected to the region where I was born. But after leaving school, the only clear thought I had about my life was to leave this provincial area and go to places where real life was happening. — Volker Bertelmann

The relation of loving contains exactly those ordered pairs such that d loves e. This relation is presumably not reflexive on the set of all persons: some people do not love themselves. Much grief is caused by the fact that this relation is not symmetric.... — Volker Halbach

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary. — Volker Ullrich

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand! — Volker Bertelmann

I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me. — Volker Bertelmann

I also remember riding home from a wonderful day with only my bathing shorts, losing the chain of my bicycle, having no hand breaks, and slipping high speed on a street covered with stones. I had to go to the hospital. — Volker Bertelmann

Hitler's unusually improvisational and personal style of leadership, which created constant responsibility conflicts and an anarchic tangle of offices and portfolios, was anything but an expression of political incompetence. On the contrary, it served to make Hitler's own supremacy essentially unassailable. — Volker Ullrich

I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music. — Volker Bertelmann

Miss Volker," I said about as politely as I knew how, "do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?" "I have to," she said. "I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can't drop dead on the job - so let's get going. — Jack Gantos

Hitler was "someone seduced by himself," someone who was so inseparable from his words "that a measure of authenticity flowed over the audience even when he was telling obvious lies. — Volker Ullrich

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs. — Volker Braun

Very few recordings exist in which Hitler can be heard speaking normally. But in those that do exist, it's evident he possessed quite a warm, calm voice. It's a completely different tone from what he used in his public appearances. — Volker Ullrich

When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings. — Volker Bertelmann

Hitler always styled himself as a man who renounced all personal happiness in the service of his people. There is no conclusive evidence of this, but I believe that behind the smokescreen of discretion, Hitler had a very normal love life with Eva Braun. — Volker Ullrich

We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had. — Volker Ullrich

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like. — Volker Bertelmann

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before. — Volker Bertelmann

I am still happy to be close to the city, [to be] connected to the intellectual source in Ferndorf. In this area, [I feel] connected with nature and unimportant in a postitive way. — Volker Bertelmann

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately. — Volker Ullrich

The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine. — Volker Ullrich

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence. — Volker Bertelmann

Goat made no move to get out. "Billy...this is nuts."

"Yeah, well we left 'sane and normal' behind the first time Volker said 'zombie — Jonathan Maberry

In his book Defying Hitler, written in British exile in 1939, Sebastian Haffner recalled the "icy fright" that had been his first reaction to the news that Hitler had been named chancellor: "For a moment I almost physically sensed the odour of blood and filth surrounding this man Hitler. It was a bit like being approached by a threatening and disgusting predator - it felt like a dirty paw with sharp claws in my face." But — Volker Ullrich

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas. — Volker Bertelmann

Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims. — Volker Ullrich

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight. — Volker Bertelmann

I like the influence of pictures on music and the other way around. — Volker Bertelmann

Scientists should always be on the lookout for new potential sources of knowledge and understanding. — Volker Fintelmann

During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode. — Volker Bertelmann

My music is also one part of my inner process, and people also seem to connect with me on that - especially the ones who have the same questions for their own lives. — Volker Bertelmann

The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way. — Volker Bertelmann

Memories were in my mind during nearly all the concerts I've done, and I realized the deep connection to my childhood, when I went out in the morning and the only thing my mom said was, "Come back before dark." What trust and what freedom! — Volker Bertelmann

Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career. — Volker Ullrich

Town-planning," Geddes once wrote, "is not mere place-planning, nor even work-planning. If it is to be successful it must be folk-planning. This means that its task is . . . to find the right places for each sort of people; places where they will really flourish." These places, of course, are not really to be found, but have to be made. From his earliest designs for a botanical school garden and urban renewal work in Edinburgh to his latest building initiatives in Montpelier in southern France, Geddes pursued the creation of such places. He perceived himself as a gardener ordering the environment for the benefit of life. — Volker M. Welter

The body in Chinese medicine, then, is not an aggregate of discrete morphological substances linked to each other anatomically by means of mechanical structures and physiologically by way of interactive functional systems. Rather, it is a complex unit of functions and a site of regular transformations. While these transformations have discernible patterns, the body itself is always becoming. — Volker Scheid

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video. — Volker Bertelmann

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button. — Volker Grassmuck

I was actually very surprised after using some plastic necklaces on the strings, as the sound was very bright. Sometimes I just put something inside that lies next to me ... — Volker Bertelmann

Angela Merkel tries to make a career as a Bush's Suppository. — Volker Pispers

I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band. — Volker Bertelmann

I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach. — Volker Bertelmann

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics. — Volker Ullrich

Count Harry Kessler noted laconically: "It's a sad New Year, the end of a catastrophic year and the beginning of what looks to be an even more catastrophic one. — Volker Ullrich

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people. — Volker Bertelmann

I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound. — Volker Bertelmann

I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance. — Volker Bertelmann

Who cares whether they laugh at us or insult us, treating us as fools or criminals?" Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. "The point is that they talk about us and constantly think about us. — Volker Ullrich

If there is one thing we admire about National Socialism it's the fact that it has succeeded, for the first time in German politics, in the complete mobilisation of human stupidity."30 — Volker Ullrich

No one will take care of me but me. I let go of all expectations and love and accept myself. — Leslie Volker