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

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.

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.