Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
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… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I see, in this life, the hardship many suffer. I see the joy that music can give. How we deal with all… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want to cherish,… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share
