Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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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.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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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.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
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I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.
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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.
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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.
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Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
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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.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.
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The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.
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It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.
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The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
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My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
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The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.
