Quotes by Gustavo Dudamel - Page 1

My material life is simple.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Life Is
Life Is Simple
Simple
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Music is a fundamental human right
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Fundamentals
Humans
Music Is
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I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Needs
Thinking
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I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Los Angeles
Wells
Angeles
Eaten
Los
Marvelously
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I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.
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Nice
Sometimes
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You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Musically
Tour
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I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Big Families
Orchestra
Want
Big Family
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When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.
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Naked
Play
Simple
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With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Citizens
Community
Orchestra
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Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Cities
Los Angeles
Special
Angeles
Cultural
Ethnic
Los
Mix
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When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
People
Special
Things Change
Change People Feel
Happening
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You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
And Love
Believe
Work And Love
Love Work Believe
Happen
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I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Mean
Rights
Way
Masses
Whereby
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The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Challenges
Sound
Special
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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 / Conductor
Chance
Classical Music
People
Classical
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Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
Gustavo Dudamel / Conductor
Children
Energy
Orchestra
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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 / Conductor
Imagination
Real
Remember When
Years
Concert
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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 / Conductor
Classical Music
People
Tickets
Venezuela
Music People See
Classical
Concert
Crying
Screaming
Ticket
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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.
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Challenges
Spiritual
Symphony
Almost Every Day
Returning
Studying
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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.
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Opportunity
Expression
Musical
Play
Violin
Conduct
Instrument
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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 / Conductor
Halls
Musician
Acoustic
Concert
Hall
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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.
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Musical
Parent
Venezuela
Wife
Family Wife Me
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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.
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Disco
Impossible
People
Want
Concert
Sold
Young People
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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 / Conductor
Music
Chance
Audience
Classical Music
Music People Sometimes
Music Chance People
Show
Classical
Closer
Small
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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 / Conductor
Patience
Dedication
Development
London
Orchestra
Positively
Warmth
Reflect
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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.
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Crazy Life
Orchestra
Life Future Family
Conduct
Life Family Future
People Say
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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 / Conductor
Biographies
Book
Different Subjects
Mahler
Pages
Philosophy
Reading
Subjects
Love Time Focus
Jump
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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 / Conductor
Atmosphere
Best Way
Feelings
Prom
Thinking
Life Change Best
Concert
Embracing
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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.
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Art
Children
Goal
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I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies
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Lying
Musical
Years
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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.
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Millions
Orchestra
Sweden
Time Chance Where
Angles
Connect
Los
Millions Of People
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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!
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Journey
Community
Long
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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 / Conductor
Journey
Long Journey
Concert
Prices
They Say
Ticket
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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 / Conductor
Christmas
Home
Cds
Expecting
Symphony
Tchaikovsky
Love Home Me
Cd
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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 / Conductor
Music
Collaboration
Conductor
Feelings
Important
Orchestra
Player
Thinking
Important Way More
Understand
Also
Between
Same
Players
Feeling
Leading
Member
Respecting
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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 / Conductor
Children
Conducting
Eight
Mahler
Nine
Orchestra
Rehearsal
Symphony
Tchaikovsky
Work Together Me
Beethoven
Rehearse
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