"When we're at the end of The Rite……" — Esa-Pekka Salonen
"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
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38 Quotes by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we…
- The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss.…
- As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather…
- Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the…
- I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
- I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some…
- I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from…
- I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
- I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
- I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
- I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
- Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
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