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We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

~Andris Nelsons

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I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.

~Andris Nelsons

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I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and tradition-wise.

~Andris Nelsons

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For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

~Andris Nelsons

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Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.

~Andris Nelsons

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Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great things at Tanglewood. He was the best example of what a conductor should be.

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Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

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I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.

~Andris Nelsons

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Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the orchestra understand.

~Andris Nelsons

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Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.

~Andris Nelsons

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Biography

Nationality: Latvian

Type: Composer

Born: November 18th, 1978

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