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1. "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

2. "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

3. "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

4. "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

5. "I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!" ~ Gustavo Dudamel

6. "I live day by day." ~ Gustavo Dudamel

7. "I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses." ~ Gustavo Dudamel

8. "I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot." ~ Gustavo Dudamel

9. "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

10. "Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix." ~ Gustavo Dudamel

11. "My material life is simple." ~ Gustavo Dudamel

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

13. "With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community." ~ Gustavo Dudamel

14. "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

15. "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

16. "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

17. "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

18. "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

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