Walking in the gap

“The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.”

“Jag aukar pa din mang, du aukar pa min lykke.”

“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.”

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”.

“People have feet. Trees have roots.”

“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign”.

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”

“Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

“Walking is humanity’s best medicine”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”

“I always thought that a world without monuments is happier than a world where monuments are needed.”

“Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God”

“låta själen hinna ikapp”

“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in”

“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom” (Death)