Salonen Conductor Quotes & Sayings

If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me. — David Foster Wallace

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Roman, it's all fine! Okay? You can top, bottom, or do it sideways, it doesn't matter."
"You can do it sideways? Is that like spitting sideways? — Eli Easton

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history ... — Woodrow Wilson

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy. — Adrian McKinty

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Complexes does not allow us to see our uniqueness — Sunday Adelaja

There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit. — Esa-Pekka Salonen