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Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

Finnish - Musician | June 30, 1958 -

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Change Together Priorities You Get

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

You New Hill First Always Over

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music Experience Way Sound Does Had

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Happy Free Feel I Feel Very

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music Deep Down Always Deep Down

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

People You Person Way Two Different

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 Process Always Whatever Faster

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

New Things Start Process You Stop

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Experience Career Scary Happened

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music Myself Want Kind Turn Out

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 First Imagine Been

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Active Two Expression Masters Means

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