Jean Sibelius Quotes

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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
• 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…
• For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,
• All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,
• 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…
• Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.
• 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…
• No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
• Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.
• For me, music begins where words end.
• Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
• Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
• Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

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