Quotes by Gustavo Dudamel

About Gustavo Dudamel:

Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist. He is the music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is honorary conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

Gustavo Dudamel

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.

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My material life is simple.

Gustavo Dudamel

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

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

Gustavo Dudamel

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

Gustavo Dudamel

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all th...

Gustavo Dudamel

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.

Gustavo Dudamel

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

Gustavo Dudamel

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.

Gustavo Dudamel

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 Be...

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Author Bio

  • NameGustavo Dudamel
  • DescriptionVenezuelan conductor and violinist
  • BornJanuary 26, 1981
  • CountryVenezuela
  • ProfessionConductor; Composer