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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
Explore more quotes by Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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."
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
"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."
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
"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."
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