Jean Sibelius citáty

Johan Julius Christian "Jean"/"Janne" Sibelius bol fínsky hudobný skladateľ.

✵ 8. december 1865 – 20. september 1957
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“It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.”

Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), p. 94.
Usually quoted as "Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."

“In his work a means of escape has been found from outmoded romanticism on the one hand and from a barren objectivity on the other.”

Neville Cardus in the Manchester Guardian, 1935; reprinted in his The Delights of Music (1966) p. 56.
Criticism

“Art is the signature of civilizations.”

Beverly Sills, interviewed on NBC TV, May 4, 1985.
Misattributed

“Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.”

Cecil Gray Sibelius: The Symphonies (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) p. 56.
Of his Symphony No. 6 (1923).

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

To Jussi Jalas, October 1, 1939. http://www.sibelius.fi/english/omin_sanoin/ominsanoin_16.htm

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

Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas Living Biographies of Great Composers (Garden City (NY): Blue Ribbon, [1940] 1946) p. 309.
Said in 1907, in conversation with Gustav Mahler.

“Never pay any attention to what critics say…Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!”

Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber25 october