Edvard Grieg Quotes

#1. Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Edvard Grieg

#2. 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.

Edvard Grieg

#3. I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Edvard Grieg

#4. In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

Edvard Grieg

#5. 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 Grieg

#6. Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted ... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

Edvard Grieg

#7. I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

Edvard Grieg

#8. 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 Grieg