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Esa-Pekka Salonen

"I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly."

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"I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly."

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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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"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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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"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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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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"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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"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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"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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"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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