I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

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.

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.

In my end is my beginning.

As we move into unprecedented changes in our world, new and better tools are needed for meeting the challenges. The Michael teachings are one such tool.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.