Salonen Conductor Quotes

#1. Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#2. It was all I could do to keep from lunging across the table and pressing my shuttering lips against his burning flesh. My palms were sweating profusely causing me to have to wipe them against my jeans under the table. Those last few seconds had felt like a lifetime in pause.

Jennifer L. Brown

#3. Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. 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

#5. Men could be utter pussycats when they had even a touch of the sniffles.

Thomm Quackenbush

#6. I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.

Felicia Day

#7. 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

#8. The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Mary Karr

#9. The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Samuel Johnson