"What is an orchestra? An orchestra is a community where the essential and exclusive feature is that it is the only community that comes together with the fundamental objective of agreeing with itself. Therefore, the person who plays in an orchestra begins to live the experience of agreement. And what does the experience of agreement mean? Team practice ... the practice of the group that recognizes itself as interdependent, where everyone is responsible for others, and the others are responsible for oneself. ... Agree on what? To create beauty. What is it then, that the orchestra has planted in the souls of its members? A sense of harmony, a sense of order, implicit in the rhythm, a sense of the aesthetic, the beautiful, the universal, and the language of the invisible. That language of the invisible transmitted unseen through music."
- Jose Antonio Abreu (founder of El Sistema in Venezuela)
