A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
A true "personality" . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
At last, fortissimo! [On visiting Niagara]
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?
Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.
Fortissimo at last!
Fortissimo at last!
( on seeing Niagara Falls )
I have had on the tip of my tongue for some time.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi . . .
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.