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"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."
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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."
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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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Explore more quotes by Esa-Pekka Salonen

"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
Time

"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."
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"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience

"The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important."
People

"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
Will

"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
Music

"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
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"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
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"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
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