Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Esa-Pekka Salonen quotes and sayings page 2 (musician). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 37 we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.”
“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.”
“I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.”
“In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.”
“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.”
“Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.”
“Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.”
“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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