Carl Nielsen Quotes
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Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.
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Motto at the top of the score of his Symphony 4: Inextinguishable
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
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My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research
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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!