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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
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
You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different. -- Gloria Estefan
[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. -- Gloria Estefan
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
How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world? -- Gloria Estefan
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. -- Gloria Estefan
The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly. -- Gloria Estefan
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
Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force. -- Gloria Estefan
The '70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends. -- Gloria Estefan
My guitar and singing was my way of crying. -- Gloria Estefan
Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again. -- Gloria Estefan
Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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. -- 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
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
I think it's important to have a happy parent. -- Gloria Estefan
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
I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level. -- Gloria Estefan
We seal our fate with the choices we make. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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. -- Gloria Estefan
My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go. -- Gloria Estefan
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. -- Gloria Estefan
People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles. -- Gloria Estefan
Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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
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. -- 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
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 have a very open line of communication with both my children. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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. -- Gloria Estefan
She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book. -- 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
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write. -- Gloria Estefan
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
[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
[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
A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren. -- Gloria Estefan
The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music ... because music was my escape. -- Gloria Estefan
[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. -- Gloria Estefan
My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals]. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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
[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it. -- Gloria Estefan
I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one. -- Gloria Estefan
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
My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt. -- Gloria Estefan
You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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
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
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
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. -- 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
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. -- Gloria Estefan
In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed. -- Gloria Estefan
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy. -- Gloria Estefan
The greatest feeling is to have somebody that's so happy to see you. -- Gloria Estefan
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
A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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
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'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
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
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
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. -- 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
[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. -- 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
The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day ... because it shows you still care. -- Gloria Estefan
When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be. -- Gloria Estefan
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
Stevie Wonder always smells so good ... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away! -- Gloria Estefan
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
I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time. -- 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
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. -- Gloria Estefan
A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness. -- Gloria Estefan
She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well ... It got her! -- Gloria Estefan
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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
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
My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder. -- Gloria Estefan
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. -- Gloria Estefan
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! -- Gloria Estefan
We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. -- Gloria Estefan
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. -- Gloria Estefan
Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment. -- Gloria Estefan
I only used my whole life one perfume: and it's Cartier's Le Must. -- 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
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
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
Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father. -- Gloria Estefan
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
The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis
"Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006]. -- Gloria Estefan
In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive. -- Gloria Estefan
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. -- Gloria Estefan
When you are happy it is harder to write [songs]. -- Gloria Estefan
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. -- 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
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
I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life. -- Gloria Estefan
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. -- Gloria Estefan
Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else. -- Gloria Estefan
I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist. -- 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
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
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. -- Gloria Estefan
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
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
The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything. -- Gloria Estefan
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 ... -- Gloria Estefan
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. -- Gloria Estefan
We do have the power to save one another ... -- Gloria Estefan
I was a straight-A student, baby! -- Gloria Estefan
I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention. -- Gloria Estefan
I'm happy and I have a great life. -- 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
Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way. -- 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
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child. -- Gloria Estefan
Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time. -- 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
I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant. -- 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
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
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
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
I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly. -- Gloria Estefan
I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat. -- 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
We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. -- Gloria Estefan
As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun. -- 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
I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point. -- Gloria Estefan
There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going. -- Gloria Estefan
Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics. -- Gloria Estefan
I love Gershwin. I love musicals. -- 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
If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do? -- Gloria Estefan
One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education. -- Gloria Estefan
Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything. -- Gloria Estefan
Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life. -- 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
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
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. -- 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
You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. -- 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
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. -- Gloria Estefan
I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. -- Gloria Estefan
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. -- Gloria Estefan
Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people. -- Gloria Estefan
Performing is one of the best feelings I know! -- Gloria Estefan
My mom was definitely very strict with me. -- Gloria Estefan