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.

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.

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

Release the baggage of the past. Carry joy instead.

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know'.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.