Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.
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When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.
