We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

- Gilberto Gil

Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situat…

- Gilberto Gil

Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogen…

- Gilberto Gil

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 o…

- Gilberto Gil

We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalga…

- Gilberto Gil

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 cont…

- Gilberto Gil

Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of internation…

- Gilberto Gil

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

- Gilberto Gil

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we al…

- Gilberto Gil