Gustavo Dudamel Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.”

“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.”

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

“Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'”

“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.”

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

“I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.”