Gloria Estefan Quotes

1. I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

2. My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

3. All I tell artists is: "Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art."

4. What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

5. I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.



6. My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King and Stevie Wonder.

7. The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.






8. Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

9. Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.



10. A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.


11. We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

12. Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

13. I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

14. I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

15. My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.


16. Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

17. I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

18. In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.

19. You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

20. I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

21. The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

22. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

23. You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

24. As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.


25. The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

26. I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

27. My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

28. To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

29. I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think: "Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?" Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

30. I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

31. There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

32. As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

33. (on her husband Emilio) He makes me laugh like crazy. We're still kids inside. We're mature and responsible when it comes to business, but we know how to have fun.



34. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

35. You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.


36. I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

37. There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

38. I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

39. Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!

40. Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

41. When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

42. I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.


43. If there's ever been a dark moment in my life…well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

44. Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and thought I was putting spiritual messages in my music. I'm not religious as such. Dogma and I don't get along.

45. There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.







46. My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

47. I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

48. I'd love to have a program like "Dr. Laura." I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.





49. My mom was definitely very strict with me.

50. Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

51. I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

52. I hold "Mi Tierra," my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.




53. Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

54. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

55. I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

56. I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

57. People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.

58. My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch "The Andy Williams Show" on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

59. Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it's like boot camp out there; I can't do anything - just sleep, sing and be very healthy.




60. Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

61. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

62. When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.

63. Well, I'm proud of it. I was declared persona non grata not by the country but by a terrorist regime. But I know that Cubans love me and my music.




64. I was the only girl in class who spoke Spanish and the first word I learned was "stupid" because that's what the kid next to me called me.

65. Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.





66. Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

67. My mom was definitely very strict with me.




68. She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.



69. Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

70. As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

71. When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.

72. The '70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends.

73. My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.





74. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.


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