Quotes from Juan Diego Florez

I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

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 now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.