Top 39 Quotes About Sibelius
#1. It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.
Eugene Ormandy
#2. The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#3. Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
Neville Cardus
#4. Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.
Nico Muhly
#5. Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
Eric Whitacre
#6. Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway - U.S. 66,
Edward Abbey
#7. I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.
Colm Toibin
#8. I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
Rufus Wainwright
#9. As soon as she was ready for work, she called out to Eric's closed door. "Anything in particular you want for breakfast?"
"Yeah," he said, heading for the door. "But I don't think it's on the menu.
Terry Spear
#10. Music begins where the possibilities of language end
Jean Sibelius
#11. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson
#12. I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
John Frankenheimer
#13. I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
Howard Schultz
#15. The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.
Jean Sibelius
#16. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#18. A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.
Mark McKinnon
#19. Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
Alice Oswald
#20. 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 Sibelius
#21. 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 Sibelius
#22. Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.
Jean Sibelius
#23. If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.
Jean Sibelius
#24. Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art
Jean Sibelius
#26. This crazy, loopy universe that we live in is pretty entertaining, and we're only here for a short amount of time. #GIRLBOSSes make it count.
Sophia Amoruso
#27. It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.
Jean Sibelius
#28. All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,
Jean Sibelius
#30. Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.
Bill Hicks
#31. [He] carefully put a funky-looking pair of reading glasses on her. "There we go. How are they?"
She blinked experimentally, peering around the room. "Good, I think. Thank you."
"Wear them the next time we f***. That would be thanking me."
"Aww. You say the sweetest things."
"Don't I?
Kylie Scott
#32. 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 Sibelius
#33. Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans ... because I can still feel that affinity.
Jean Sibelius
#34. Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.
Jean Sibelius
#35. I met my first midget in Mexico, and he was a waiter with a sombrero on his head, filled with chips and salsa. Like I was gonna let that guy get away - I don't think so.
Chelsea Handler
#36. The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
P. G. T. Beauregard
#37. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
Jean Sibelius
#38. You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think 'Well gee, let's not mess this up.' But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.
Jerry Seinfeld
#39. For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,
Jean Sibelius
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