Carl Nielsen quotes
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“I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.”
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“Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!”
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“Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.”
-- Carl NielsenSource : '4th Symphony' ('The Inextinguishable', 1916) preface
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“All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.”
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc
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