Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations,… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba. — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage. — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society,… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
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