Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“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

#America #People #Firsts
“I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Composer #Very Happy #Feels
“I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Two #People #Different
“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

#Done #Firsts #Imagine
“I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

#Jumping #Ideas #Transition
“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 #Europe #Ideas
“Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Orchestra #Layers #Clarity
“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

#Player #Thinking #People
“Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

#People #World #Today
“Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

#Mean #Expression #Two
“The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Want #Kind #These Days
“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

#Southern #Process #Surface
“Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Soul #Doe #Movement
“After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Years #Pleasure
“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

#People #Giving #Way
“Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Firsts #Hills #Higher
“My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Sound #Doe #Way
“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 #Conducting #Composing
“This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Careers #Scary #Conducting
“This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

#Play #Orchestra #Halls
“The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Ideas #Typical #Form
“I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Real #Believe #Film Music
“The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Air #Missing #Sensual
“I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Sound #Kind #Visceral
“I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.”
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Ravel #Masters

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