Andris Nelsons Quotes

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

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• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

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• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

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• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

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• New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

  

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• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

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• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

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• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

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• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

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• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

  

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• But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

  

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• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

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• The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  

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• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

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• Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

  

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• Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

  

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• We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.

  

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• For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

  

  Andris Nelsons
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  • Music
  • Why