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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Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.
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Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
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Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
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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.
