Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside. — 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
It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra. — 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 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
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
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 could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at… — 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
Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you… — 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
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
For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me -… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
All of us in the field must remain constantly vigilant and fight against all types of inappropriate and hurtful behavior and continue… — 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 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
For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide… — 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 two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about… — 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
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
Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half… — 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 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 regime understood… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside. — 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 to the… — 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 while we… — 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 sense of… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
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 Image
Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive. — 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 make much… — 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 our feelings… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
