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
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
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the… — 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 don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film… — 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
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed… — 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
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. — 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 was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and… — 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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