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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."

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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."

Art

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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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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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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"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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Esa-Pekka Salonen
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."

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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 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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