The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
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 Copy Share
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
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 Copy Share
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share
