This was echoed in his interview in the Svenska Dagbladet after a performance of the Sixth in Stockholm in March 1923: "I do not think of a symphony only as music in this or that number of bars, but rather as an expression of a spiritual creed, a phase in one's inner life."
In his interview with Svenska Dagbladet after a performance of the Sixth Symphony in Stockholm in March 1923, he stated: "I don't see a symphony just as music within a certain number of bars; rather, it is an expression of a spiritual creed and a stage in one's inner life."