Gustavo Dudamel Quotes
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.
I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.
It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.
For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.
