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.

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

My material life is simple.

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.

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

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.

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.