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.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

Music is a fundamental human right

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

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.

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

I don't regret the things I done. I regret not doing things when I had the chance.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

Fear is like a disease that can be fatal if not treated on time.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.