Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • Evil
  • Justice

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Company

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Think
  • Better
  • Wine

• I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Play

• Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in any life history. A living experience of God is the crowning knowledge attainable to a human mind.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

  

  Charles Hermite
  • World
  • Mind
  • Reality

• Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • Survival

• Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

  

  Mary Gaitskill

• I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Work

• I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Life
  • Music
  • Dark

• In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Design
  • Architecture

• I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Women
  • Book
  • Lit

• I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Fighting

• When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.

  

  Jami Attenberg

• By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Hand
  • Religious
  • Feel Good

• And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.

  

  David Price
  • Friends
  • Fall

• A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Proud

• I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Years
  • Guitar
  • TV Shows

• Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Journey
  • Adventure
  • Satisfying