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 Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — 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
If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word. — 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 Image
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 Image
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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 Image
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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 Image
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
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