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.

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

One day a week I seek to rest from earthly toil and sorrow.Revitalized, I find the strength to battle new tomorrows.

Life is a circle, like it or not that's the law.

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect.

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.

God enters through the wound.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.