#pen

Los 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 Salonen

#forum #functions #give #just #los

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

#continuous #faster #happening #music #northern

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#coast #east #east coast #find #first

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#conducting #experience #happened #i #international

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on. ↗

— Victor Salva

#effort #happened #hide #i #learn

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#aspect #band #day #eating #extra

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#event #figure #going #had #i

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#hear #like #people #politicians #tell

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing. ↗

— Eric San

#i #little #make #pencil #really

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those