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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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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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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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but painClings cruelly to us.
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You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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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.
