Gloria Estefan Quotes
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[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
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
It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.
— Gloria Estefan
You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.
— Gloria Estefan
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.
— Gloria Estefan
My mom was definitely very strict with me.
— Gloria Estefan
I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.
— Gloria Estefan
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
I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly ... he could have gone a long time ago.
— Gloria Estefan
My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
— Gloria Estefan
When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].
— Gloria Estefan
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.
— Gloria Estefan
[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.
— Gloria Estefan
If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?
— Gloria Estefan
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.
— Gloria Estefan
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
— Gloria Estefan
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
— Gloria Estefan
The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music ... because music was my escape.
— Gloria Estefan
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
In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
— Gloria Estefan
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
— Gloria Estefan
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
— Gloria Estefan
I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
— Gloria Estefan
Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.
— Gloria Estefan
I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
— Gloria Estefan
Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people.
— Gloria Estefan
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
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
and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more. — Gloria Estefan
In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.
— Gloria Estefan
I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.
— Gloria Estefan
I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
— Gloria Estefan
The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day ... because it shows you still care.
— Gloria Estefan
My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
— Gloria Estefan
I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.
— Gloria Estefan
Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.
— Gloria Estefan
I only used my whole life one perfume: and it's Cartier's Le Must.
— Gloria Estefan
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
Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.
— Gloria Estefan
There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.
— Gloria Estefan
I was a straight-A student, baby!
— Gloria Estefan
[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.
— Gloria Estefan
We seal our fate with the choices we make.
— Gloria Estefan
Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
— Gloria Estefan
The greatest feeling is to have somebody that's so happy to see you.
— Gloria Estefan
She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well ... It got her!
— Gloria Estefan
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
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
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
As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.
— Gloria Estefan
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
I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
— Gloria Estefan
There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
— Gloria Estefan
Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
— Gloria Estefan
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.
— Gloria Estefan
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.
— Gloria Estefan
I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level.
— Gloria Estefan
I think it's important to have a happy parent.
— Gloria Estefan
I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
— Gloria Estefan
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
— Gloria Estefan
My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.
— Gloria Estefan
Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.
— Gloria Estefan
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
— Gloria Estefan
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
The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
— Gloria Estefan
You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.
— Gloria Estefan
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
I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
— Gloria Estefan
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
I'm happy and I have a great life.
— Gloria Estefan
Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.
— Gloria Estefan
If there's ever been a dark moment in my life ... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
— Gloria Estefan
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
Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.
— Gloria Estefan
My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
— Gloria Estefan
You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.
— Gloria Estefan
How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?
— Gloria Estefan
We do have the power to save one another ...
— Gloria Estefan
Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
— Gloria Estefan
Stevie Wonder always smells so good ... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
— Gloria Estefan
You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
— Gloria Estefan
A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
— Gloria Estefan
Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!
— Gloria Estefan
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
— Gloria Estefan
Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
— Gloria Estefan
A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.
— Gloria Estefan