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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
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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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