Whenever I listen to a children’s orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
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. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I’m reading biographies of Mahler. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
For me to rehearse with a children’s orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
A friend gave me a CD of the ‘Pathetique’ Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started ‘ta ta ta taaa.’ It was too long for me. I didn’t understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
