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

— Jean Sibelius

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Of his Symphony No. 6 (1923).

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

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

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

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.

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

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