"My music wouldn’t sound the way it does if I hadn’t had the experience of conducting." ― Esa-Pekka Salonen Topic(s): Experience More From Esa-Pekka Salonen "This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience." "If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage." More In Experience "Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."― Elie Wiesel "Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."― Alphonse de Lamartine "You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin