I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

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.

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

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

Music is a fundamental human right

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.