Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Quotes

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

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo

• Music
• Rock
• Listening
• Everything
• Jazz
• Tango

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• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

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• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

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• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

  

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• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

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• Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

  

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• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

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• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

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• This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

  

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• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

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• Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

  

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• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

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• Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

  

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• A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

  

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• A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.

  

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• Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.

  

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• If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.

  

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

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Listening