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

-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

“I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.”
“The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.”
“Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.353, Simon and Schuster
“That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.”
“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
“I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.”
“The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.”
“You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.”

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