Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes - Page 2

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

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  People, World, Today

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

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  Mean, Expression, Two

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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.

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  America, People, East

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• I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

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  Thinking, Trying, Done

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

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  Play, Orchestra, Halls

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

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  Careers, Scary, Conducting

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

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  Country, West, Legacy

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• The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

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  Differences, Cities, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Typical, Form

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• 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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  Real, Believe, Film Music

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• 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.

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  Jumping, Ideas, Transition

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• The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

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  Adventure, Journey, Satisfying

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

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  Years, Play, Differences

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

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  Aversion, Cerebral, Deep Down

  Gramophone, Volume 79, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Done, Firsts, Imagine

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• Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.

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  Training, Culture, Asking

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• 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.

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  Two, People, Different

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

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  Composer, Very Happy, Feels

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• 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.

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  Problem, Conducting, Composing

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• I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

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  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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, Giving, Way

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

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  Priorities, Together, Chords

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

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  Sound, Kind, Visceral

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• I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

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  Ravel, I've Learned, Masters

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• 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.

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  Southern, Process, Surface

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