Quotes by Gilberto Gil - Page 1

Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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Fashion
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I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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Planets
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We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
Intellectual
Law
World
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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 paralyzed in a way.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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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 / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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Political
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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 establishments like the one the US represents.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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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 too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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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 amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society, together to advance civilization towards what we all understand is necessary to advance. Because of that he's being subjected to very serious rejections from the reactionary portion of the system, which, unfortunately, is the dominant portion.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
Civilization
Peaceful
Rejection
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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 and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
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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, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.
Gilberto Gil / Former Minister Of Culture Of Brazil
Civilization
Race
Thinking
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