Sing for Sea Captains August 7, 2015

"If I could live my life again, I would chase any thoughts of Art out of my head and be apprenticed to a merchant or pursue some other useful trade the results of which could be visible in the end ... What use is it to me that the whole world acknowledges me, but hurries away and leaves me alone with my wares until everything breaks down and I discover to my disgrace that I have lived as a foolish dreamer and believed that the more I worked and exerted myself in my art, the better position I would achieve. No, it is no enviable fate to be an artist.[26]"

Carl August Nielsen born today June 9, 1865
Danish Composer
(Wilcox Nebrask) died October 3 after suffering a heart attack on October 1, 1978