I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.

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.

The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

There are some things that can't be measured.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.