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

~Esa-Pekka Salonen

Topics: Always Course First Get Higher Hill Lurking New Once Over You

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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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Topics: Change Chord Disturbed Get Older Priorities Still Together You Your

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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.

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Topics: Angeles Forum Functions Give Just Los Los Angeles More Open People Place Say Show They Say Us Way You

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

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Topics: Body Does Intellect Just Just As Much Movement Much Music Soul

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

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Topics: Always Aversion Cerebral Deep Deep Down Down Had Music Purely Slight Toward

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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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Topics: Different Discovered Make North People Person Similar Southerner Two Way Worlds You

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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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Topics: Always Continuous Faster Happening Music Northern Process Slower Southern Surface Tends Underlying Whatever

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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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Topics: Form Idea More New New Things Northern Overlap Process Some Some Things Start Stop Tell Things Typical Units Various Where You

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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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Topics: Career Conducting Experience Happened International Scary Sucked Thing Very Which

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

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Topics: Days Hear Kind Music Myself Out Turn Want

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Musician

Born: June 30th, 1958

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