With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people.

I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.

My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.

Juan Diego Florez Quotes