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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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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Allerdings ist das Leben nicht eigentlich da, um genossen, sondern um überstanden, abgethan zu werden...
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Why give up before we try?
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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.
