Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Yourself, Enough, Play

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

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Greatest, Used, Getting

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 always faster.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Whatever, Process

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Find, America, Reason

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 continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Working, Interested, Sound

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

Bad, Country, West

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, End, Spring

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

True, Hard, Play

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Nationality: Finnish

Born: June 30, 1958

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