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Inspirational Quotes by Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
- I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
- I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
- After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
- Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
- 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.
- This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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