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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

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Sometimes You Spend Nine Months, 10 Months,

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.

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