Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.
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Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.
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Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.
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The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
