Gloria Estefan Quotes

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.

There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.