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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"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."
"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"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."
"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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