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Andris Nelsons

Profession : Composer

Birth : November 18, 1978

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

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All of us in the field must remain constantly vigilant and fight against all types of inappropriate and hurtful behavior and continue the essential work of creating a fair and safe work environment for all classical musicians.

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When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.

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Some people will always gossip.

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

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When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.

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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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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!

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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.

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

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The task is to influence and create a reaction in the audience. In my opinion, any reaction of a human being in the audience, I think this is great. It means we touched the person's soul.

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Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.

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For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

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Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

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Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

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I'm thankful to Deutsche Grammophon, our partners - we are going to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies and hopefully some other things as well.

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I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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I think music can change your life.

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

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

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