Gustavo Dudamel Quotes

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

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.

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken aback. "Well, I should think-" he began. "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it's really amazing. I love that connection.

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.