Sibelius 7 Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.

Randy Lerner

#4. No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

Jean Sibelius

#5. The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.

Jean Sibelius

#6. 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

#7. For me, music begins where words end.

Jean Sibelius

#8. As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Harper Lee

#9. My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.

Leon Bridges

#10. 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

#11. The little logo that sits at the top of the screen of any 'Bluetooth-enabled' hardware () is actually a monogram created from the two runes that represent Harald's initials

Neil Oliver

#12. 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

#13. Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.

Jean Sibelius

#14. 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

#15. I've spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed ... Whatever floats your boat.
Tiberius of Triad
C.O.A series

Kim Cormack

#16. If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

Jean Sibelius

#17. Doctor, doctor! I have a serious problem. I can never remember what I just said. When did you first notice this problem? What problem?

Various

#18. I could make the bad guys good for a weekend.

Taylor Swift

#19. Music begins where the possibilities of language end

Jean Sibelius

#20. It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

Eugene Ormandy

#21. She had tried. She had fought. And she had lost.

Stephanie Clifford

#22. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Jean Sibelius

#23. Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

Jean Sibelius

#24. Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans ... because I can still feel that affinity.

Jean Sibelius

#25. Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even a small number of films as a professional composer gets used to that idea pretty quickly.

Christophe Beck

#26. 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

#27. Thank you for trusting me.

Nicholas Sparks

#28. I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

Rufus Wainwright

#29. For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,

Jean Sibelius

#30. 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

#31. No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

#32. All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,

Jean Sibelius

#33. It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

Jean Sibelius

#34. Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

Stephen Richards

#35. 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

#36. The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

Boyd K. Packer

#37. Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art

Jean Sibelius