Santaolalla Things Quotes & Sayings

Nice tree, he says.
That boy has unexpected depth. — Cynthia Hand

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places, imagining things could be better there and thus hating our reality.
We are the only ones to blame for our own suffering.
We hurt ourselves every time we think of how other people should behave according to our standards and then suffer when they appear to be individuals; every time we open a book with so many expectations about it from what we've heard and hoped it to be, and then close it in disappointment, realizing it's something totally different (maybe beautiful, inspiring and challenging, but nothing that met our expectations). — Lidiya K.

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. — Lawrence Lessig

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

I love to get involved with projects that take me out of my comfort zone. I try to do things that are not necessarily what I'm used to. I always wanted to do a big animation movie and stick to the codes that this genre sometimes implies. — Gustavo Santaolalla

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

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. — Vaclav Havel

My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument. — Gustavo Santaolalla

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

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

Thank you for taking such good care of her. She hasn't been doing a very good job of that herself." "Grandma." Glancing at Emily, Carter smiled. "That's going to change. Right, Emily?" "Broken cisterns?" A sense of accomplishment shot through him and surfaced in a grin. He'd made his point, and Emily obviously saw she needed to take a good long look at her life. — Lorna Seilstad

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste. — Nikita Khrushchev

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

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well. — Frederick Buechner

It's always nice when your work is recognized. — Gustavo Santaolalla

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well. — Michala Petri

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

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation. — Pope Francis

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law. — Jean-Louis Gassee

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing. — Diane Setterfield

Give me the wisdom to know what must be done and the courage to do it. — George R R Martin

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

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

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. — John McPhee

Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

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

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

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