Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I make music for the hips, not the head.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

I like to groove a little bit!

As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.

I realised how important it is to have your body movement, your diction, tonality, dialogue delivery and to be in rhythm because everything is musical.

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.

Wrestling is an art. Every culture has an art, like music and dancing and fighting. So that's my base. If I think about it like art, I can connect with everybody.

I can dance to just about anything.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.

I have always been attracted to songs that make me want to dance.

Everybody likes good music, so when you're just playing good music and encouraging everybody to have fun, they'll have fun.

Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.

When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.

Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don't twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.