Andris Nelsons Quotes
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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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from.
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Love has no value in the absence of truth.
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We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
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Revolution, in history, is like the doctor assisting at the birth of a new life, who will not use forceps unless necessary, but who will use them unhesitatingly every time labor requires them. It is a labor bringing the hope of a better life to the enslaved and exploited masses.
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The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.
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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.
