Andris Nelsons Quotes

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

Andris Nelsons

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• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

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• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

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• I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

  

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• Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

  

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• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  

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• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

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• The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

  

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• If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

  

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• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

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• I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

  

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• This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

  

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• What you wish to others, God wishes to you.

  

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• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

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• In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

  

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• I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

  

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• Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

  

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• You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

  

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• So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

  

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• When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up.

  

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• Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

  

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• Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Communication