Gloria Estefan Quotes

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

Music really is our daily medicine.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

You know when I really realized like 'wow' what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.