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Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

Finnish - Musician | June 30, 1958 -

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

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Music Differences Play More Years

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.

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People You Place Los Angeles Say Us

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

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Art Ideas Tradition Always Europe

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.

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People America Possibilities Find

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.

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Music Believe Doing Will Reason

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

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Legacy Bad Country West West Coast

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

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Love You Kind Sound Belly Hits

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

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Music Soul Body Movement Intellect

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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Music Spring People End Feel Want

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

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Character People Think Nice Royal

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.

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Way Sound Difficulties Next Greatest

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

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Day Progress Understanding Every Day

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