Gloria Estefan Quotes

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Gloria Estefan

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 1, 1957

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

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

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My mom was definitely very strict with me.

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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.

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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.

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

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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

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The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

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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.

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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.

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Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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