52 Quotes by Gustavo Dudamel

I think it’s a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra – especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you’re doing.

My main goal, and it’s a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music – as a right – that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture – especially music.

Music is a fundamental human right.

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.

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.

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, ‘Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it’s impossible because it’s sold out.’ It’s really amazing.

When you play Mozart, it’s so clean, it’s so simple. It’s the body naked.