Kaija Saariaho quotes

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.
-- Kaija Saariaho

#Long #Done #Taste

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.
-- Kaija Saariaho

#Art #Writing #Past

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.
-- Kaija Saariaho

#Position Of Power #Polemics #Wells

When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.
-- Kaija Saariaho

#Country #Honesty #Expression

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.