With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

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

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.

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.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.

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!