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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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