Esa-Pekka Salonen Classic Quotations

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.