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I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#chord #disturbed #get #i #older

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#learned #like #lot #masters #orchestration

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #completely #construction #everything #experience

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#forum #functions #give #just #los

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#does #intellect #just #movement #much

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#does #experience #had #hadn #i

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#course #first #get #higher #hill

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#clarity #emphasis #layers #orchestras #precision

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#harmony #his #masterly #only #precisely

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#hear #i #kind #music #myself