Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
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... →
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... →
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying... →
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time... →
Jerry Saltz
At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio.... →
Sharon Salzberg