Andris Nelsons Quotes
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I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.
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Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.
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I'm thankful to Deutsche Grammophon, our partners - we are going to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies and hopefully some other things as well.
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We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.
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I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Some people will always gossip.
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To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.
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I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
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I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.
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The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
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You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much better music.
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I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.
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Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.
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It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.
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Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
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Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.
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When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.
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Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.
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I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.
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For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.
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Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.
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As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.
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You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
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As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.