Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
Esa-Pekka SalonenI 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.
Esa-Pekka SalonenStravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Esa-Pekka SalonenThere 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.
Esa-Pekka Salonen