The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open -… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing… — 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
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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