Esa Quotes

In sanskrit Sarvatra means omnipresent, Esa means God. Thats way i always want ~ Dian Nafi

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat ~ Tamora Pierce

Katar," said Britta, "I thought you would want to stay with your friends from home while they were here, so I had your things moved from your room in the delegates' wing."
"You can have my things brought in too," said Peder, throwing himself onto the nearest bed. He sighed as he sank into the soft mattress and rolled onto his side.
"Um ... I don't think boys are-" Britta began.
"Don't you mind me!" Peder pulled a blanket over his head.
Miri didn't know how he could even pretend to fall asleep. She could barely keep from pacing.
"Don't worry, Britta," said Esa. "We'll kick him out before night. Off to your fancy apprenticeship, big brother."
She nudged Peder's shape under the blanket. Peder made an exaggerated snoring noise. ~ Shannon Hale

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

my parents are Mexican who are not
to be confused with Mexican Americans
or Chicanos.

i am a Chicano from Chicago
which means i am a Mexican American
with a fancy college degree & a few tattoos.

my parents are Mexican who are not
to be confused with Mexicans still living
in México. those Mexicans call themselves mexicanos.
white folks at parties call them pobrecitos.
American colleges call them international students & diverse.

my mom was white in México & my dad was mestizo
& after they crossed the border they became diverse. & minorities. & ethnic. & exotic.

but my parents call themselves mexicanos,
who, again, should not be confused for mexicanos
living in México. those mexicanos might call
my family gringos, which is the word my family calls
white folks & white folks call my parents interracial.
colleges say put them on a brochure.

my parents say que significa esa palabra.
i point out that all the men in my family
marry lighter-skinned women. that's the Chicano
in me. which means it's the fancy college degrees
in me, which is also diverse of me. everything in me
is diverse even when i eat American foods
like hamburgers, which, to clarify, are American
when a white person eats them & diverse
when my family eats them. so much of America
can be understood like this. ~ José Olivarez

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall.
But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome. ~ Esa Saarinen

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order." ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. ~ Esa Tikkanen

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

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills. ~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA. ~ Dennis Cardoza

Jakatakan. Ancient isle. The mythical island beyond the Riders.' She addressed the others. 'But not so mythical, yes?'
'Until they came,' breathed Sister Esa.
'And what name did they come bearing?' Sister Gosh demanded.
'The name of the Island of the House of Death,' said Totsin.
'Malaz,' said Carfin, facing outward to the night.
'They are coming,' affirmed Sister Gosh. ~ Ian C. Esslemont

I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people? ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event? ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The opposite of creativity is cynicism ~ Esa Saarinen

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Shouldn't she stay on the boat?" The cat's ear twitched, and Lila felt that whatever pleasant inclinations the cat was forming toward her, she'd just lost them.
"Don't be ridiculous," said Alucard. "The ship's no place for a cat." Lila was about to point out that the cat had been aboard the ship as long as she had when he added, "I believe in keeping my valuables with me."
Lila perked up. Were cats so precious here? Or rare? She hadn't ever seen another one, but in the little time she was ashore, she hadn't exactly been looking. "Oh yeah?"
"I don't like that look," Alucard said, twisting chest and cat away.
"What look?" asked Lila innocently.
"The look that says Esa might conveniently go missing if I tell you what she's worth. ~ Victoria Schwab

"Esa chica esta bien caliente." Hector laughed as Rider shook his head. Ainsley stiffened across from me. She was pretty fluent in Spanish and even though Hector was Puerto Rican, I had a feeling she was getting the general gist of whatever he was saying and she was not happy about it. "Me gustaria a llevarla a mi casa y comermela."
Ainsley cocked her head to the side as she brushed her long, blond hair over her shoulder. "Gracias! Pero no hay ni una parte de mi que tu te vas a comer."
Hector's eyes widened.
Rider threw his head back and burst into laughter. "Oh, shit. Priceless."
"What?" Ainsley blinked big eyes at the stunned Hector. "You think some white chick can't possibly understand another language so you're going to sit in front of me and talk about me like I'm not here?" Her smile was brittle and fake. "Bitch, please."
"Man..." Hector sat back, slowly shaking his head as he stared at her. "You're...brutal."
"Damn straight," she replied, her eyes like chips of blue ice. Whatever yumminess she'd seen in Hector was completely out the window now. "And you're a mal criado."
Hector's eyes narrowed.
"I really like your friend, Mouse." Still chuckling, Rider winked at me. "She basically called him a classless ass, and I agree. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout