Gloria Estefan Quotes

It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

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.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

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

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

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

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

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.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.

We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.

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

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

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

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.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

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

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

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

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

I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.

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.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

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

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

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

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

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

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

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.

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.

My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.

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.

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

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

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

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

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