Gustavo Dudamel

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

— Gustavo Dudamel

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the…

— Gustavo Dudamel

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as…

— Gustavo Dudamel

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience,…

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

— Gustavo Dudamel

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member…

— Gustavo Dudamel

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

— Gustavo Dudamel

My material life is simple.

— Gustavo Dudamel

Music is a fundamental human right

— Gustavo Dudamel

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the…

— Gustavo Dudamel

People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because you have three families. I want to have…

— Gustavo Dudamel

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.

— Gustavo Dudamel

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

— Gustavo Dudamel

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

— Gustavo Dudamel

Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play…

— Gustavo Dudamel

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…

— Gustavo Dudamel

It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to…

— Gustavo Dudamel

I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you…

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your…

— Gustavo Dudamel

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there…

— Gustavo Dudamel

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I…

— Gustavo Dudamel