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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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"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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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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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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"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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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"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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"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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