Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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I am not a normal man.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.
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Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
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When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.
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Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
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America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
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I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
