Quotes by Spanish/Spain authors (page 19)

"I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things"

Antonio Banderas, Actor

"This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Yes, you must have the courage of being free"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I've always said that music is like literature"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I am always living very good moments"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be"

Miguel Indurain, Athlete

"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses"

Vicente Aleixandre, Poet

"When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true"

Montserrat Caballe, Musician

"Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human"

Antonio Machado, Poet

"With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story"

Elena Anaya, Actress

"Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing"

Elena Anaya, Actress

"Copiers do not collaborate"

Antonio Gaudi, Architect

"The public is a part of my real life"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"In the last century, everybody was singing lower"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"The creation continues incessantly through the media of man"

Antonio Gaudi, Architect

"Italians have no sense of the dramatic"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'"

Joan Miro, Artist

"Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension"

Joan Miro, Artist

"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness"

Joan Miro, Artist

"In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician