Edvard Grieg quotes
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“Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home”
-- Edvard GriegSource : Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.36, Mel Bay Publications
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“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.”
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“A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.”
-- Edvard GriegSource : Edvard Grieg, Finn Benestad (2000). “Letters to colleagues and friends”, Peer Gynt Pr
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“When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.”
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“I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.”
-- Edvard GriegSource : "Grieg and His Music". Book by Henry T. Fink, p. 8, 1929.
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“To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.”
-- Edvard GriegSource : Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.24, Mel Bay Publications
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“Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.”
-- Edvard GriegSource : Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.22, Mel Bay Publications
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“In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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