You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.

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.

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.

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.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

The boy had my wolf's eyes.

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.