Top 100 Gustavo Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. 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
#5. And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers.
Gustavo Kuerten
#6. Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
Gustavo Dudamel
#8. What attracts usually comes from a place you'd never think.
Gustavo Cerati
#9. Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
Gustavo Dudamel
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.
Gustavo Dudamel
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#16. 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
#18. For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer, or that people speak of me as a writer. I'm flattered, but I don't quite believe it.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#19. Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?
Gustavo Gutierrez
#21. 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
#22. The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#24. The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#25. When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
Gustavo Dudamel
#26. Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. Finally my competitive spirit has come alive and I'm winning again.
Gustavo Kuerten
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.
Gustavo Dudamel
#36. 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
#38. There is no authentic evangelization that is not accompanied by action in behalf of the poor.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#40. The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
Gustavo Dudamel
#41. 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
#42. In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Gustavo Dudamel
#44. 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
#45. The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. The theory of dependence will take the wrong path and lead to deception if the analysis is not put within the framework of the worldwide class struggle.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#50. With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
Gustavo Dudamel
#51. I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
Gustavo Dudamel
#52. Bidding for the first torment starts at fifty thousand dollars with increments of five thousand. Gentlemen, what is your pleasure?
Gustavo Florentin
#53. What seduces never seems to be where it is thought.
Gustavo Cerati
#55. 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
#56. Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#57. I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#58. 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
#59. Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.
Gustavo De Greiff
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#69. 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
#70. Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#72. 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
#73. I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward.
Gustavo Cerati
#74. You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
Gustavo Dudamel
#75. In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#76. 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
#77. If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#78. There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#79. As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#80. History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#82. 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
#83. Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#84. 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
#85. I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#86. I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
Gustavo Dudamel
#88. Eating a burrito is like eating a living, breathing organism - you can feel the burrito's ingredients sigh inside with each bite, each squeeze.
Gustavo Arellano
#89. 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
#91. Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time.
Gustavo Cerati
#92. For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.
Gustavo Dudamel
#93. 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
#94. The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#96. I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.
Gustavo Dudamel
#97. 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
#98. When there is nothing else to say, I go for a smoke
Gustavo Cerati
#99. I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
Gustavo Santaolalla
#100. The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.
Gustavo Gutierrez
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