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Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.

~Andris Nelsons

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To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.

~Andris Nelsons

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I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle.

~Andris Nelsons

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On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!

~Andris Nelsons

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Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive.

~Andris Nelsons

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I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

~Andris Nelsons

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All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

~Andris Nelsons

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I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

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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 how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.

~Andris Nelsons

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I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.

~Andris Nelsons

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Biography

Nationality: Latvian

Type: Composer

Born: November 18th, 1978

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