Jean Sibelius famous quotes

05-20-2025

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Inspirational #Confidence #Courage
Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Music #Language #Possibility
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Sleep #Horizon #Orchestra
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,
-- Jean Sibelius

#Doctors #Drink #Wanted
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,
-- Jean Sibelius

#Doors #Play #Symphony
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Water #Hue #Cocktails
Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.
-- Jean Sibelius

#World #Planes #Music Is
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Writing #Expression #Use
Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art
-- Jean Sibelius

#Art #Jobs #Giving
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Swans #Years #Affinity
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Critics
No one ever erected a statue of a critic.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Critics
For me, music begins where words end.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Ends #Music Is
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.
-- Jean Sibelius

#World #Logic #Realizing
It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Artist #Men #Difficult
The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Strong #Symphony #Environment
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
-- Jean Sibelius

#Beautiful #Hands #Together

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