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" Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Los Angeles
Great
City
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" 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. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Music
Collaboration
Building
" I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Life
Best
Change
" I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Family
Big Family
Big
" People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because you have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot, but less, to be with my family. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Future
Life
You
" I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Reading
Focus
Love
" 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. "
Gustavo Dudamel
See
People
You
" For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Work
Together
Children
" A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Christmas
Me
Friend
" Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!' "
Gustavo Dudamel
Community
Journey
Long
" I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Expression
Young
Play
" You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly. "
Gustavo Dudamel
You
Other
Lot
" My material life is simple. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Life
Material
Simple
" I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously! "
Gustavo Dudamel
Angeles
Well
Very
" My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Relationship
Dedication
Patience
" I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Learn
Lot
Need
" You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Will
Believe
Love
" I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Music
Create
Out
" I live day by day. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Live
Day
" We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Music
Chance
Small
" It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Week
Challenge
Day
" Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Feel
Amazing
Children
" 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. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Experience
Music
Chance
" 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. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Concert
House
Imagination
" With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Building
Community
You
" For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Family
Go
Parents
" When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Change
Stage
Feel
" It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren't that many millions of people in all of Sweden. "
Gustavo Dudamel
City
People
Small
" Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Our
Play
Concert
" 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. "
Gustavo Dudamel
Impossible
Saying
Amazing