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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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

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Akiroq Brost

"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

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Akiroq Brost

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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Akiroq Brost

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Religions get lost as people do."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."

Music

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."

Music

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."

Clarity

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."

Experience

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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."

Idea

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."

Art

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."

Change

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."

Music

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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."

People

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."

Experience

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