There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack… — 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
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
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
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
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
