“(…) When Adriano broke into the Italian music scene he set off a revolution, he electrified the younger audience with his anticomformist personality (…) His lifelong artistic curiosity safeguarded him from becoming a cliché, and even if he follows the global sounds from Africa down to South America, Adriano is and will always be a controversial key player in Italy’s cultural world. (…)”

“(…) Adriano is a catalyst of the contradictions of social progress, of work and the dangers for the new poor classes, of environental plundering for laying down vast cemented curfaces, and he does it with the outsider’s joyous verve (…) He’s collected 45 leading roles in the film industry, in comedies and period movies, always directed by independent filmmakers (…). All his movies were such big box office successes that they’re still unsurpassed. He also directed four movies, all of which are connected to each by the peculiarity of an expressive cross-contamination (…)”