I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family. Gustavo Dudamel More Quotes by Gustavo Dudamel More Quotes From Gustavo Dudamel I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot. Gustavo Dudamel needsthinking My material life is simple. Gustavo Dudamel life-is-simplesimplelife-is Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. Gustavo Dudamel los-angelescitiesspecial 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 atmospherefeelingsthinking 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 readingphilosophybook 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 communityjourneylong 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 musicalwifeparent 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 tchaikovskyeightchildren 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 impossiblewantpeople You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly. Gustavo Dudamel 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 musicchancesometimespeople 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 goodyoudreamplay 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 youfuturefamilylife I live day by day. Gustavo Dudamel liveday 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 citychancetimepeople
