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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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