What did Esa-Pekka Salonen mean by: I’m still disturbed if a chord isn’t together, but your priorities change as you get older. - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland Copy
+ Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
+ Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Body, Movement, Soul, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
+ I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dogma, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
+ Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Harmony, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
+ After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Fulfillment, Learn, Self-discovery, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
+ Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Challenge, Growth, Overcoming, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
+ I’ve learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
+ My music wouldn’t sound the way it does if I hadn’t had the experience of conducting. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music, Sound, 0 - Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor · Finland
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. - Frank Zappa Musician · USA
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski Conductor · United Kingdom
Don’t only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. - Hermann von Helmholtz
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music. - Jeff Buckley Singer-songwriter
