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

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

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.

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.

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.