Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside. — Andris Nelsons Boundaries Copy Share Image
Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world. — Andris Nelsons Concert Copy Share Image
Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
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
When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices. — Andris Nelsons Business Copy Share Image
I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston. — Andris Nelsons Boston Copy Share Image
The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go… — 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
Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if… — Andris Nelsons Football Copy Share Image
The task is to influence and create a reaction in the audience. In my opinion, any reaction of a human being in… — Andris Nelsons Audience 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 Death 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
I think 'Rheingold' has symbolic meaning of what happens in the world when you're running after the Rhine gold, after the gold.… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are… — Andris Nelsons Heart Copy Share Image
Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you… — Andris Nelsons Breath 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 think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that… — Andris Nelsons Chamber music 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
The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra. — Andris Nelsons Being 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
Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle. — Andris Nelsons Berlin Copy Share Image
I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways. — 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 Awe 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
I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety. — Andris Nelsons Composer Copy Share Image
