Esa-Pekka Salonen

Musician

1958-06-30

Quotes by 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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• 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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• 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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• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

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

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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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• This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

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