Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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My daughter is a very adventurous eater. I'm not the guy who sits around lamenting that all my kid will eat it is Tater Tots and chicken nuggets. With my kid, it's more a capricious and whimsical decision-making.
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The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.
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Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
