Top 28 Gilberto Quotes
#1. I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto ... It's the spirit that comes through in music.
Robert Palmer
#2. Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
Jesse Harris
#3. Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
Miles Davis
#4. Astrud Gilberto sang an old bossa nova song. "Take me to Aruanda," she sang. I closed my eyes, and the clatter of the cups and saucers sounded like the roar of a far-off sea. Aruanda - what's it like there?
Haruki Murakami
#5. You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.
Stanley Crouch
#7. I've always been interested in the way males seem to need to start clubs, or cults, to keep girls out until they need them for sex. It comes from some weird immature tribal crap, I'm sure.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#8. You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.
Gilberto Hernandez
#9. I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#10. If you believe in what you're doing, and someone criticizes that, it's likely that they're just coming from a different place and they're bringing their own baggage and it's basically projection. I try not to let it get to me.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#11. The disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.
Gilberto Simoni
#12. Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don't see enough.
Will Graham
#14. So she'd never experience love. Most married people didn't, either.
Melanie Dickerson
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#18. 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
#19. The supporters ... It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step ...
Gilberto Simoni
#20. I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#21. I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.
Gilberto Gil
#22. I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#23. We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.
Gilberto Gil
#24. I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#25. 'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.
Amanda Donohoe
#26. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.
Michel Hazanavicius
#27. If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#28. [ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba ...
Gilberto Gil
