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

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Sound Quotes #Doe Quotes #Way Quotes

“If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”
“I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.”
“The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.”
“Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.”
“A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have similar challenges. One could make the case that it's nurture, not nature because these twins were brought up together, but you can't rule out the genetic argument.”
“Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.”
“Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.14, SAGE

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