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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'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
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
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
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Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
— 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
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
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
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
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
— 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
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
— 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
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
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
— 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
