Carl Nielsen Quotes

• I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

  Carl Nielsen

  Silence, Delight, Break

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• Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

  Carl Nielsen

  Music Is Life, Music Is

  '4th Symphony' ('The Inextinguishable', 1916) preface

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• Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

  Carl Nielsen

  Long, Giving, Heaven

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