It’s a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren’t that many millions of people in all of Sweden. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it’s better because you have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot, but less, to be with my family. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
Los Angeles is a very special city. It’s a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
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. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them – their patience, their warmth, their dedication. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
I think it’s a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra – especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
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. Gustavo Dudamel Read Quote
