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“In every interview I've done since the beginning, [I'm asked] 'How do you feel about opening doors?' And I always say, 'There are two men who opened the doors for all of us, and they were Feliciano and Santana.”

Gloria Estefan

Reuters (July 23, 2007)
2007, 2008

“Careful! We don't want anybody getting squished.”

Gloria Estefan

admonition to dozens of children aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt before reading from her first children's book, "The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog" www.dailypress.com (September 15, 2006)
2007, 2008

“I love Gloria Estefan, though -- she is cool. It's always just been about the music with her and they've been really good fun pop songs and really great ballads. And she's still going strong. She's quite classy and true to her Latin roots.”

Gloria Estefan

comments by Welsh singer Charlotte Church, BBC online news (September 26, 2005)
2007, 2008

“Everyone is helping each other out. That's what we do.... You know what happens? Infrastructure might not come through -- but people do come through. We all try to do our best. I know we just got power back in one of our restuarants, and I know there are a lot of people without power. So, we invited a thousand people with children to come over and have a hot lunch on us.”

Gloria Estefan

comment in aftermath of Hurricane Wilma (CNN's Showbiz Tonight-October 27, 2005)
2007, 2008

“I do [like being a redhead]... I do... because lighter is better as you get older... It's nice... I can't be a blonde. I'm definitely not a blonde... So, that doesn't leave too many other colors available.”

Gloria Estefan

Style Network (December 15, 2006)
2007, 2008

“Oh, that's a good question because what I would consider essential may be different than what my record company and the fans might have in mind. But when you do a retrospective of 20 years like this (album) and realize that you had so many hit singles, it's really an honor. There's a couple of songs that I wrote, one is called "Along Came You" for my daughter Emily; and the other, "Nayib's Song (I Am Here for Your) for my son. Both are in the 'slow disc.' I put them in even if they were not singles or hits because for me my being a mother is an essesntial part of who I am."”

Gloria Estefan

answer to question "The title of your new album is "The Essential Gloria Estefan. What is the essential Gloria Estefan?"
2006

“I'd lock myself up in my room with my guitar. I wouldn't cry. I was afraid if I let go just a little bit, it would all go. I would sing for hours by myself.... It was my way of crying.”

Gloria Estefan

Entertainment Weekly (30 July 1993)
2007, 2008

“However long we live here, however much I feel at home in Miami, I -- like everyone else -- am an exile, an exile who cannot go home.”

Gloria Estefan

cubanet.org (May 15, 2000)
2007, 2008

“When [my mother] saw we were not going to be able to go back [to Cuba] it became increasingly important for her to make our culture very prevalent and very important in our lives -- and in our household. We spoke only Spanish. I didn't learn English until I went to school in first grade. And the [Cuban] music and the food was very much a part of our life. I'm glad for that, because it is as well for my children.”

Gloria Estefan

BBC radio interview (December 13, 2006)
2007, 2008

“The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.”

Gloria Estefan

blogs.legacyrecordings.com (February 5, 2008)
2007, 2008

“My dream is to perform in a big, celebratory concert in a free Cuba, but I don't think they'd even let me into the country. And if they did, I'd have to speak against what is going on, which the government fears. I don't know how much change toward democracy we'll see as long as one of the Castro brothers is around, but I do believe there is a future with a new leader someday. But this leader will also love Cuba and really want to take her forward. When that day comes, Emilio and I will be there in any way that we can be of service.”

Gloria Estefan

Latina Magazine (September, 2007)
2007, 2008

“{Fame has] given me a lot of free love -- and that's the best thing fame can afford you. What has it taken away? My privacy.”

Gloria Estefan

"Billboard Magazine" (11 October 2003)
2007, 2008

“I'm a writer. I've written most of the music we've performed. Most people don't know that because no one cares who writes the music. But, that's who I am. I've written poetry since I was a little girl. Music was an evolution of that.”

Gloria Estefan

greenbaypressgazette.com (October 5, 2005)
2007, 2008

“[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.”

Gloria Estefan

interview on Whoppi Goldberg radio program (October 13, 2006)
2007, 2008

“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

comment to The Associated Press (September 10, 2005) as she prepared to lead a contingent of Hispanic-American entertainers on a humanitarian mission to Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana and Mississippi
2007, 2008

“The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day... because it shows you still care.”

Gloria Estefan

Style Network (December 15, 2006)
2007, 2008

“I fought my company [Sony] tooth and nail when they stopped putting out singles.”

Gloria Estefan

thestrippodcast.com (September 9, 2006)
2007, 2008

“Emilio and I like projects to breathe and grow. We started with a concept -- write songs, make demos, then let the guest stars listen to them and then afffect the writing process. For Jose Feliciano, I had written a chorus and a bit of a melody. He started playing the chorus and ad-libbing. I went, "This is the [stuff]! Forget my melody!" Carlos Santana worked just the other way. He wanted me to record a plished take singing first, so his playing could recreate my emotion. I got goose bumps [writing "90 Millas"]. Like in "Esperando," which is addressed to Cubans on the island. Those of us in America, we're like the bogeyman, but I wanted Cubans at home to know: Whatever happened doesn't matter. The future is for us to heal. Adn also: because we're here, we latched onto any part of our culture. Yes and no [this is a political record]. Politics is life, so yes. but it's not specific. Saying that 90 miles haven't divided us sends a message about freedom for Cuba -- and for everyone.”

Gloria Estefan

www.huffingtonpost.com (September 7, 2007)
2007, 2008

“English translation of Spanish lyric in Cuba Libre”

Gloria Estefan

2007, 2008

“It took us two years to write, produce and arange the new album [90 Millas]. Aside from that, I wrote the two children's books based on Noelle, my bulldog, and I was fortunate enought that they ended up on the New York Times bestseller list. By now, we've got seven restaurants and two hotels, which we're very hands-on with, and we're building a third one in Vero Beach, Florida, And I took a vacation for once, because ever since Emilio and I got married in'78, every trip we've take has been for work. So last year, we went to Egypt, Panama, the Bahamas and Greece. It was fantastic!”

Gloria Estefan

Latina Magazine (September, 2007)
2007, 2008