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

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

There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

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

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.