63 Quotes by Andris Nelsons

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.