Andris Nelsons Quotes

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Composing is my life blood.

Music is all about creativity.

My heart and soul is still music.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I usually think in terms of music.

Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.

I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

Words are music, really.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?