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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

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things. — 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

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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

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

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

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment. — Esa-Pekka Salonen