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

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Source : "Sibelius: The Symphonies" by Cecil Gray, London: Oxford University Press, (p. 56), 1935.

Jean Sibelius

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“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
“Love is an undulating energy that moves through you, within you, and radiates out of you, and changes everything.”
“The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.”
“You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.”
“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”
“When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.”
“In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.”
“God does not play dice.”

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