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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Originally I was not writing songs for myself."
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"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."
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"Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows."
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"Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature."
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"Silken strings composing the harpsichord of life accommodate a score of emotional tidings. An orchestra of linked heartbeats strumming the melodious prose of our collective intones gives rise to sonnets of melancholy, producing an illimitable libretto stretching from the milky dawn of newborn's amaranth life to the speckled sunsets of gentle souls whom we cherish."
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"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor."
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"I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping."
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"I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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Explore more quotes by 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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"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
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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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"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
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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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"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."
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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 music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
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