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I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.

Gustavo Dudamel

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Gustavo Dudamel
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 26
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Violinist
Barquisimeto
Venezuela
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When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
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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.
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With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
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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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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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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.
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You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.
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The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
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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.
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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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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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I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
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Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
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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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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.
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