Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Change, Together, Older

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Art, Everyone, Ideas

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

After, Working, Hear

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Time, Same, Anyone

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Rather, Idea

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Progress, Toward, Concert

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Deep, Down

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Good, Bad, Done

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Happy, Free, Composer

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Love, Sound, Hits

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Learned, Masters, Stravinsky

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Play, Roughly

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Give, Place, Show

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Soul, Body

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Experience, Sound

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Once, Higher, Hill

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Used, Clarity

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Two, Means, Expression

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Harmony, Conceived, Precisely

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Days, Hear

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

Nice, Character, Important

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Today, Suspicion

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Problem, Times, Perhaps

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Experience, Career, Happened

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Bad, Country, West

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Nationality: Finnish

Born: June 30, 1958

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