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Esa-Pekka Salonen

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."

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Akiroq Brost

"My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."

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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."

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Akiroq Brost

"The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is."

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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

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"I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."

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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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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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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