110+ Gloria Estefan Quotes (Energetic, Joyful And Iconic)

Gloria Estefan is an American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. She is best known for being part of the musical duo Miami Sound Machine. She is one of the most successful crossover performers in Latin music, having won seven Grammy Awards and sold over 100 million records worldwide.

Top 10 Gloria Estefan Quotes

1. Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
2. Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
3. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
4. 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.
5. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
6. I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.
7. We seal our fate with the choices we make.
8. Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
9. Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
10. A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

Gloria Estefan Short Quotes

• I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
• My mom was definitely very strict with me.
• We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
• Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.
• A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.
• I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
• I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.
• The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.
• Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

Gloria Estefan Famous Quotes And Sayings

It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal. — Gloria Estefan

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. — Gloria Estefan

My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record. — Gloria Estefan

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release. — Gloria Estefan

[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career. — Gloria Estefan

It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself. — Gloria Estefan

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

I tell him [husband Emilio] you are lucky I am not a jealous woman, because look at the women he's worked with: Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Thalia, Madonna. These very sexy women. I trust him. — Gloria Estefan

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

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

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago. — Gloria Estefan

I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go. — Gloria Estefan

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

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream. — Gloria Estefan

I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm? — Gloria Estefan

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times. — Gloria Estefan

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

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you. — Gloria Estefan

I'm happy and I have a great life. — Gloria Estefan

I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me. — Gloria Estefan

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents. — Gloria Estefan

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

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby. — Gloria Estefan

[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through — Gloria Estefan

I'd like them to see that those things that set us apart or make us different can be wonderful contributions to the world around us. I'd like them to see that size and color are irrelevant to the dreams we envision for ourselves. And I'd also love for them to see that life is a journey, and every step of the way, we can learn something and become stronger and wiser. — Gloria Estefan

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book. — Gloria Estefan

It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more. — Gloria Estefan

Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything. — Gloria Estefan

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her! — Gloria Estefan

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do. — Gloria Estefan

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! — Gloria Estefan

My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in. — Gloria Estefan

When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish. — Gloria Estefan

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again. — Gloria Estefan

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write. — Gloria Estefan

I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly. — Gloria Estefan

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed. — Gloria Estefan

Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future. — Gloria Estefan

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. — Gloria Estefan

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

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

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. — Gloria Estefan

I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat. — Gloria Estefan

Performing is one of the best feelings I know! — Gloria Estefan

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education. — Gloria Estefan

Everybody's not as fortunate as I've been that can have their hubby with them on the road, that we can do whatever we want and mainly be honest with the kids. Just the time that you do give them, make it be great time. It doesn't have to be hours. — Gloria Estefan

I think it's important to have a happy parent. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write. — Gloria Estefan

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do? — Gloria Estefan

You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart. — Gloria Estefan

The separation of families to me is very close to my heart because we lived that as immigrants. I strongly feel that we all connected, and 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. I am privileged to help in some way, and I will always take that opportunity. — Gloria Estefan

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]. — Gloria Estefan

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD. — Gloria Estefan

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be. — Gloria Estefan

I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything. — Gloria Estefan

We do have the power to save one another... — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

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

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do. — Gloria Estefan

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

For I've finally realized that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray. — Gloria Estefan

I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media. — Gloria Estefan

When you are happy it is harder to write [songs]. — Gloria Estefan

More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life — Gloria Estefan

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

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. — Gloria Estefan

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything. — Gloria Estefan

And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some! — Gloria Estefan

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way. — Gloria Estefan

Life Lessons by Gloria Estefan

1. Gloria Estefan is an example of how hard work and dedication can lead to success. She has achieved incredible success as a musician, despite facing many obstacles along the way.
2. Her story teaches us to never give up, even when faced with adversity, and to always keep striving for our goals.
3. Gloria Estefan also teaches us the importance of staying true to ourselves and our passions, no matter what anyone else says.