Gloria Estefan Quotes

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Gloria Estefan

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 1, 1957

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

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I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

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A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

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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.

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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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