Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Ultimate
• Separation
• Clarity
• Layers
• Emphasis
• Orchestra

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Different
  • Song
  • Myself

• You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Happy
  • Learn

• I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Church
  • Television

• I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Words
  • Always
  • Matter

• I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Work
  • Series
  • TV

• Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Happiness
  • Enemy

• What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

  

  Hadewijch
  • Men
  • May
  • Nature

• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Life is

• In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Words
  • Lovers
  • Fighter

• I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Universe

• With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Respect
  • Dog
  • Door

• Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Study

• A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Country
  • Serve
  • Yield

• Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

  

  William Law
  • Summer
  • Perfection
  • Intention

• There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin, hardly a separation, and both ran on pain and blood and fear and death and joy and music. But for now, the sunset was enough.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Music
  • Death
  • Pain

• When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

  

  Bob Benson
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Answers

• The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turn off.

  

  Jonathan Katz
  • Environment
  • Turn
  • Billboards

• Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Ultimate
  • Separation
  • Clarity