Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• I'm an indestructible master of war.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • War
  • Masters
  • Indestructible

• A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Worship
  • Century

• I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Slave
  • Masters

• The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • True
  • Christian
  • Masters

• The person seeing perfection is the Master.

  

  Baird T. Spalding
  • Persons
  • Perfection
  • Masters

• I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"

  

  Tony Bennett
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Live
  • Moments

• We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Die
  • Poetry

• I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I'm a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people studies. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. Gives them direction.

  

  George Benson
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Trying
  • May
  • Stop

• A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-create the thought and emotion of an unknown person-the composer-which can sometimes be a transfiguring experience.

  

  Charles Munch
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Unknown

• Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Trust

• We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Music
  • Possession
  • Invisible

• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Humility
  • Masters

• Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Important
  • Laugh

• I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Attention
  • Special
  • Wit

• Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Slave

• The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Ego
  • Masters
  • Demands

• Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Masterpiece
  • Resembles

• 'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

  

  Sharon Stone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Masters
  • Masterpiece
  • Conductor