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