After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
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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.Esa-Pekka Salonen
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
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I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
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I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
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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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I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
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