Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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The F-word here is focus.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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On occasion, Frau Mertens, looking clean and fresh, would walk out into the fields to see how things were going. She had a colonial largesse about her. By way of greeting, she said “Heil Hitler” to us, with a smile. We would straightened up from the muddy earth and stare at her. No one said a word. She seemed disappointed.
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Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
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I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.
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An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
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I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
