Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.
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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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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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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 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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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
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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.
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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.
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We don't own a TV. My kids are always outdoors.
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact... it shakes me so powerfully. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)
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The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.
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But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.
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The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.
