Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
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I don't trust President Obama with our records. I know you gave him a big hug, and if you want to give him a big hug again, go right ahead.
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It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
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So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
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The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.
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I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.
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I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.
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I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.
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I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.
