Top 45 Gloria Estefan Quotes

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.

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.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

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.

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

Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.

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

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.

The ’70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends.

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

There’s no reason that just because you’re a celebrity you can’t write.

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.

Fashion is nice, but it’s for the fans. If it were up to me, I’d be in a sweat suit!

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

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.

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

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

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.

My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double – she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

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.

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

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

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

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.

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.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

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!

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.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

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.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you’re determined and persevere, you’re going to succeed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You know, it’s funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it’s yours to have.