Andris Nelsons Quotes

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.