Top 100 Gloria Estefan Quotes
#1. She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
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#2. Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.
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#3. The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.
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#4. If there's ever been a dark moment in my life ... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
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#5. 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.
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#7. I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.
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#8. 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.
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#9. [After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
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#10. For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.
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#11. Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
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#12. There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. [To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale"]: If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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#16. When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and ... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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#17. I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
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#20. I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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!
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. Stevie Wonder always smells so good ... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
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#26. 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
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#27. 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.
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#28. My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.
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#29. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
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#38. 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.
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#39. I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
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#40. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
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#41. A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.
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#42. In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.
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#43. Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.
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#44. She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well ... It got her!
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#45. The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music ... because music was my escape.
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#46. Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.
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#48. The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.
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#50. As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.
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#51. Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.
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#52. It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem
and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.
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#53. I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.
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#54. I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.
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#57. I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.
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#58. 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.
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#59. It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.
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#60. You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.
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#61. I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.
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#65. We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
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#66. 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.
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#67. I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
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#68. [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
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#69. I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
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#71. Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
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#74. 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.
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#75. My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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#76. [After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.
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#77. [My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I dreamed of becoming a writer. And ... this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book ...
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#80. Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people.
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#81. If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?
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#82. Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
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#83. Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
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#84. Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.
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#85. For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember
regardless
is "Conga" ... I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
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#86. 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.
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#87. My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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#89. I tell him [husband Emilio] you are lucky I am not a jealous woman, because look at the women he's worked with: Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Thalia, Madonna. These very sexy women. I trust him.
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#90. There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
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#91. A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
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#92. [As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.
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#93. I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
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#94. 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.
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#95. One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.
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#96. I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And, I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone
and you will not be.
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#97. And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson: and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to ... and then some!
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#98. I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.
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#99. My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food
the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.
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#100. When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.
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