Jean Sibelius quotes
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“Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”
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“Music begins where the possibilities of language end.”
-- Jean SibeliusSource : Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919.
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“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 SibeliusSource : Jean Sibelius' remarks to Jussi Jalas, August 27, 1943.
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“All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,”
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“For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,”
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“Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.”
-- Jean SibeliusSource : "Sibelius: The Symphonies" by Cecil Gray, London: Oxford University Press, (p. 56), 1935.
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“Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.”
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“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 SibeliusSource : Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919.
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“Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art”
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“Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.”
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“No statue has ever been put up to a critic.”
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“No one ever erected a statue of a critic.”
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“If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.”
-- Jean SibeliusSource : "Living Biographies of Great Composers" by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, Garden City (NY): Blue Ribbon, (p. 309), 1946.
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“It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.”
-- Jean SibeliusSource : "Sibelius: A Close-Up" by Jean Sibelius, London: Faber and Faber, (p. 94),
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“The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.”
-- Jean SibeliusSource : Jean Sibelius' remarks to Jussi Jalas, October 1, 1939.
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“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 SibeliusSource : Jean Sibelius' remarks quoted by Jalmari Finne to Anna Sarlin, June 28, 1905.
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