Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
Robert Dwayne Womack
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Lisa Scottoline
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Coco Chanel
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
