Gloria Estefan Quotes

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

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

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

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.

A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

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

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

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.

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

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.

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

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?

I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.

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

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

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.

Everybody's not as fortunate as I've been that can have their hubby with them on the road, that we can do whatever we want and mainly be honest with the kids. Just the time that you do give them, make it be great time. It doesn't have to be hours.

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.'

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive 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 Ive gone through.

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.

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.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

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.

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!

It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

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.

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

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.