Top 100 Gloria Estefan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.”

— Gloria Estefan

52. “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

53. “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 in a Cuban record.”

— Gloria Estefan

54. “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

55. “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

56. “I was a straight-A student, baby!”

— Gloria Estefan

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Gloria Estefan

60. “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.”

— Gloria Estefan

61. “Performing is one of the best feelings I know!”

— Gloria Estefan

62. “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

63. “I’m happy and I have a great life.”

— Gloria Estefan

64. “Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.”

— Gloria Estefan

65. “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.”

— Gloria Estefan

66. “I love Gershwin. I love musicals.”

— Gloria Estefan

67. “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

68. “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.”

— Gloria Estefan

69. “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

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

— Gloria Estefan

71. “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

72. “I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.”

— Gloria Estefan

73. “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

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

— Gloria Estefan

75. “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

76. “Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.”

— Gloria Estefan

77. “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.”

— Gloria Estefan

78. “I make the best pancakes you’ll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.”

— Gloria Estefan

79. “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

80. “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

81. “My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha’ts my prime objective on this planet.”

— Gloria Estefan

82. “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

83. “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

84. “The greatest feeling is to have somebody that’s so happy to see you.”

— Gloria Estefan

85. “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

86. “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

87. “When I write a song it’s always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.”

— Gloria Estefan

88. “My mom was definitely very strict with me.”

— Gloria Estefan

89. “I think it’s important to have a happy parent.”

— Gloria Estefan

90. “There’s no reason that just because you’re a celebrity you can’t write.”

— Gloria Estefan

91. “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.”

— Gloria Estefan

92. “Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.”

— Gloria Estefan

93. “Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.”

— Gloria Estefan

94. “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

95. “She’s an amazing dog and really inspired everything that’s in this book.”

— Gloria Estefan

96. “Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.”

— Gloria Estefan

97. “I’m a writer and this is what I love to do.”

— Gloria Estefan

98. “A parent that’s upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.”

— Gloria Estefan

99. “Wherever there’s a human being there’s going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.”

— Gloria Estefan

100. “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.”

— Gloria Estefan