Gloria Estefan Quotes - Page 4

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.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

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].

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

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

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

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.

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

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

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

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

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.

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

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

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.

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

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

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

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

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.