"Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!"

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Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.

Gustavo Dudamel

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“The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.”
“You know, I used to say that it's really tough to get out of the top 100, you know? So I proved to everybody that it's not so tough, it's pretty easy.”
“I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.”
“If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.
“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”

Source : Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381
“I didn't think I was the right person to do that job but I do think Michael Gove is and that's why I'm backing him.”
“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”

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