Top 100 Quotes About Estefan
#1. It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.
Jencarlos Canela
#2. Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.
Gloria Estefan
#3. Stepping off the plane in Miami was like reentering the womb. Was it the welcoming voices of LeBron James and Gloria Estefan? No, it was the scent of Cinnabon.
Maria Semple
#4. She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
Gloria Estefan
#6. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#7. Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.
Gloria Estefan
#8. The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.
Gloria Estefan
#9. If there's ever been a dark moment in my life ... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
Gloria Estefan
#10. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#12. Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
Gloria Estefan
#13. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#15. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#16. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#17. [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.
Gloria Estefan
#18. You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.
Gloria Estefan
#19. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#20. Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
Gloria Estefan
#21. There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
Gloria Estefan
#22. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#23. I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.
Gloria Estefan
#24. And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope ... that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.
L.J.Smith
#25. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#26. [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.
Gloria Estefan
#27. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#28. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#29. My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
Gloria Estefan
#30. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#31. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#32. Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
Gloria Estefan
#33. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#34. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#35. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan
#36. 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!
Gloria Estefan
#37. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#38. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#39. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#40. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#41. Stevie Wonder always smells so good ... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
Gloria Estefan
#42. The '70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends.
Gloria Estefan
#43. 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
Gloria Estefan
#44. Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?
Gloria Estefan
#45. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#46. My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.
Gloria Estefan
#47. [Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.
Gloria Estefan
#48. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
Gloria Estefan
#49. Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
Gloria Estefan
#50. I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
Gloria Estefan
#51. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#52. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#53. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#54. We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.
Gloria Estefan
#55. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#56. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#57. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#58. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#59. As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.
Emilio Estefan
#60. You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
Gloria Estefan
#61. My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet.
Gloria Estefan
#62. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#63. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#64. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#65. I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
Gloria Estefan
#66. Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
Gloria Estefan
#68. I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
Gloria Estefan
#69. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#70. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
Gloria Estefan
#71. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#72. I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
Gloria Estefan
#73. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
Gloria Estefan
#74. A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.
Gloria Estefan
#75. In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.
Gloria Estefan
#76. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#77. She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well ... It got her!
Gloria Estefan
#78. The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music ... because music was my escape.
Gloria Estefan
#79. Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.
Gloria Estefan
#80. Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.
Gloria Estefan
#82. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#84. I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?
Gloria Estefan
#85. As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.
Gloria Estefan
#86. Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.
Gloria Estefan
#87. I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level.
Gloria Estefan
#88. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#89. Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
Gloria Estefan
#90. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#91. I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.
Gloria Estefan
#92. I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.
Gloria Estefan
#94. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#95. I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.
Gloria Estefan
#96. This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.
Gloria Estefan
#97. 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.
Gloria Estefan
#98. Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!
Gloria Estefan
#99. The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day ... because it shows you still care.
Gloria Estefan
#100. I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.
Gloria Estefan
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