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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
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
— 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
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
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
— 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
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
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.
— Esa Saarinen
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 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 if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
— Esa Tikkanen
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.
— 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
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
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
— 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
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
— 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
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
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
The opposite of creativity is cynicism
— Esa Saarinen
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
— 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
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen