I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.
Esa-Pekka SalonenI started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
Esa-Pekka SalonenLos Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
Esa-Pekka SalonenClassic 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.
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