List of Gloria Estefan Quotes

I'm Very Appreciative Of, And I Also, Having Traveled The World, Know That The United States Is One Of The Few Places Where There Really Are No Limitations. As Long As You've Got Drive And Hard Work And A Good Idea And You Can Get Out There And Do Your Thing, There's No Social Classes, So In A Lot Of Countries There's A Big History Of Regardless Of How Much Money You May Make, There's Still That Little Thing Where You're Not In Society. That Doesn't Exist Here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wherever There's A Human Being There's Going To Be Somebody That Tries To Hold You Back.

When I Went To Do "carson" That Night, They Wanted Us To Do Two Songs, But We Were A Brand New Band. "conga" Hadn't Even Hit The Top 10 Yet. They Go, "do You Think You Could Do Something That People Know, Because We Want You To Do A Second Song, But Not Two Originals, Because We Don't Want To Lose The Audience, Just In Case."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.