Andris Nelsons Quotes

I am who I am, a Southie.

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

Seattle has always been home.

London made my family and myself.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

I'm thankful to be here in Cleveland, and I believe this is where I belong.

Philadelphia is always going to be home.

I'm always in touch with where I'm from.