Gustavo Quotes & Sayings

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

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. — Gustavo Dudamel

The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else — Gustavo Perez Firmat

Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home), the give-and-take with students, the surprises. One day you think you have the goods for a sensational class and it bombs. The next day you have nothing and the class turns out splendidly. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Music is a fundamental human right — Gustavo Dudamel

But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men are able to manifest their deepest commitment
our Neighbor. The sacrament of our Neighbor!'
Congar — Gustavo Gutierrez

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. — Gustavo Dudamel

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. — Gustavo Dudamel

So you say you love the poor? Name them. — Gustavo Gutierrez

It's not that I refuse to look at the world around me, but that I refuse to pretend it's anymore important than everything else, you know what I mean? The moments from the past or from the future, the unreal scenes from tales, dreams, the projects we push aside each day that exist in the doubt we stop having in order to live--they're all worlds as true as this one, and I neither abandon or degrade them. So, I suppose that if I live in so many spaces at once, being absent from this one from time to time should be excusable, don't you think? — Gustavo Faveron Patriau

As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry! — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Well, now," Mrs. Havisham said, all but purring as she leaned forward, ample cleavage on display. "You've grown up, haven't you? Tell me, Gustavo. What are your thoughts on having an experienced lover?"
"Not many," Gus said. "In fact, none at all. Also? I came out when I was thirteen. You were there. As was the whole town. Pastor Tommy announced it at the Fall Harvest Festival. On stage. Into a microphone. There was apple pie afterward."
"Still?" she said with an exaggerated pout.
"Yes," Gus said, deadpan as he could make it. "Still. Funny how that works."
"Well, if you change your mind, you know where to find me," she said, dragging a pink fingernail down his arm. "My door is always open. Like my body."
"That's not even remotely healthy," Gus said with a sniff.
"Maybe that's why I need your protein," she said with a wink.
"Nope," Gus said. "Nope, nope, nope."
"You sure about that?"
"Maybe you should close that door. And your legs. — T.J. Klune

There is something hidden in each sensation. — Gustavo Cerati

My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything. — Gustavo Santaolalla

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change. — Gustavo Dudamel

It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren't that many millions of people in all of Sweden. — Gustavo Dudamel

My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication. — Gustavo Dudamel

Our future depends on how we understand the past. — Gustavo Cerati

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place. — Gustavo Dudamel

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort. — Gustavo Gutierrez

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week. — Gustavo Dudamel

The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace. — Gustavo Gutierrez

When there is nothing else to say, I go for a smoke — Gustavo Cerati

In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation of workers, permanent unemployment, the lack of respect for one's human dignity, and unjust limitations placed on personal freedom in the areas of self-expression, politics, and religion. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Risk is the most intense road. — Gustavo Cerati

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music. — Gustavo Dudamel

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it. — Gustavo Dudamel

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God. — Gustavo Gutierrez

It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films. — Gustavo Santaolalla

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies — Gustavo Dudamel

I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you. — Gustavo Dudamel

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise. — Gustavo Gutierrez

So true is this that if we do not respond to the demands of the present, because we do not know in advance whither we may be led, we are simply refusing to hear the call of Jesus Christ. We are refusing to open to him when he knocks on the door and invites us to sup with him. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic. — Gustavo Dudamel

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. — Gustavo Dudamel

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music. — Gustavo Santaolalla

What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.
What is poetry! And you are asking me?
Poetry ... is you. — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Man is saved if he opens himself to God and to others, even if he is not clearly aware that he is doing so. This is valid for Christians and non-Christians alike
for all people ... We can no longer speak properly of a profane world. A qualitative and intensive approach replaces a quantitative and extensive one. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger. — Gustavo Santaolalla

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter (this was a long time ago). As I've gotten older, I've learned to enjoy putting sentences together, though I still believe that writing, unlike sex, is always better after you're through. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish. — Gustavo Santaolalla

I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Detroit had an accumulated debt of $20 billion, including a $9 billion debt with the public workers pension plans. The fact Puerto Rico and Detroit, showcased many similarities, led to speculation about the real possibility of the island's fiscal collapse. In Puerto Rico's case, at that point, the debt amounted to $71.3 billion and the local economy's structural problems were very similar to those in Detroit. The effects of the end of Section 936 in the island, the eventual economic stagnation, and the public debt, professional's emigration, and the continued reduction of the tax base have generated a sort of spiral fall. — Gustavo Velez

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously! — Gustavo Dudamel

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world ... The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing. — Gustavo Dudamel

People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because you have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot, but less, to be with my family. — Gustavo Dudamel

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion. — Gustavo De Greiff

I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot. — Gustavo Dudamel

Bidding for the first torment starts at fifty thousand dollars with increments of five thousand. Gentlemen, what is your pleasure? — Gustavo Florentin

Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself. — Gustavo Gutierrez

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

What attracts usually comes from a place you'd never think. — Gustavo Cerati

I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward. — Gustavo Cerati

It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly. — Gustavo Arellano

One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music. — Gustavo Santaolalla

The Exodus from Egypt, the home of sacred monarchy, reinforces this idea [desacralization of creation]: it is the 'desacralization' of social praxis ... In Egypt, work is alienated and, far from building a just society, contributes rather to increasing injustice and to widening the gap between exploiters and exploited. — Gustavo Gutierrez

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

A confident person is someone who can perceive things in a positive way no matter how negative it appears to be. A confident person is someone who has faith in his own abilities and uses these abilities effectively and efficiently. He/she must be able to defend his or her beliefs no matter how much the people around him/her disagree with those beliefs. — Gustavo Lopez

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!' — Gustavo Dudamel

My material life is simple. — Gustavo Dudamel

Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time. — Gustavo Cerati

Silence is not lost time. — Gustavo Cerati

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. — Gustavo Dudamel

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. — Gustavo Dudamel

It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction. — Gustavo Kuerten

I live day by day. — Gustavo Dudamel

World Screen provides clear, insightful reporting on the most critical and complex issues of our industry. It combines local savvy with a global perspective, and it is an important source of information. — Gustavo Cisneros

Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man's freedom, but are rather realities based on freedom, taken on and modified by man ... This new definition of politics carefully distinguishes between state and society. The distinction ... allows us to differentiate between the public sphere of the state of the Church (or the combination of them) as powers from the public sphere 'in which the interests of all men as a social group are expressed. — Gustavo Gutierrez

To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift. — Gustavo Gutierrez

With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.' — Gustavo Santaolalla

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the exploitation, oppression, and alienation which prevails in Latin America. This has caused concern among the beneficiaries and defenders of capitalist society, who no longer can depend on what used to be - whether consciously or unconsciously - one of their mainstays. — Gustavo Gutierrez

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Charity is today a 'political charity.' ... it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production. — Gustavo Gutierrez

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited. — Gustavo Gutierrez

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly. — Gustavo Dudamel

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses. — Gustavo Dudamel

The fact that I do so many things, it really nurtures me. — Gustavo Santaolalla

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

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. — Gustavo Dudamel

Finally my competitive spirit has come alive and I'm winning again. — Gustavo Kuerten

I'm so proud to have worked in this movie, Brokeback Mountain, a movie that once again showed us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that that we can be so different too. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones. — Gustavo Gutierrez