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

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.

Be happy. Be free. You have a universe inside you.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.