Music is a fundamental human right

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

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.

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

The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

Every man will tell you little boys should not play with dolls but ask any mother and they will tell you, every little boy has gone to sleep cuddled into one at one time in there life.

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.