Quotes About Edvard Grieg

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

Edvard Grieg

#2. It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.

David Chipperfield

#3. 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

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

Edvard Grieg

#5. An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

Jamaica Kincaid

#6. Grab your parachute because this woman will fly you to the peaks of ecstasy and drive you crazy enough to make you jump off.

Athena Starwoman

#7. 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

#8. Solid ground beneath his feet, dirt under his fingernails, the husbandry of growing things, bulbs and roots, seeds and shoots, this had been his world.

Salman Rushdie

#9. 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

#10. When you realize how much women mistrust their sex, it makes you wonder how you could ever marry one ...
Dimitris Mita

Dimitris Mita

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

Edvard Grieg

#12. There is a middle ground in things.

Horace

#13. All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Charles Hazlewood

#14. It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

Jandy Nelson

#15. After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.

James Toney

#16. I'm a fighter. So if you're going to doubt me or say that I can't do something, I'm going to prove to you I can do it. And when I do it, hopefully I earn your respect and you'll know it didn't come easy to me.

LaMarcus Aldridge

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

Edvard Grieg

#18. Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.

Andy Biersack

#19. 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