With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

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.

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.

Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

Pele should go back to the museum.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.