"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."

-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Problem Quotes #Conducting Quotes #Composing Quotes

“The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2000). “The Language of Inquiry”, p.43, Univ of California Press
“I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“â€ŽWhat a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.”
“Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.”
“It could just be a shift on the axis.”
“Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.”

Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.160, Macmillan
“Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.”
“Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.”

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