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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I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.
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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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Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.
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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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I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.
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When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.
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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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I think 'Rheingold' has symbolic meaning of what happens in the world when you're running after the Rhine gold, after the gold. It doesn't end very well. It's kind of a reminder of the values of life, and I think 'The Ring,' in a way, is kind of a prediction of Wagner of what would happen in the world.