Gloria Estefan Quotes

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

I love working with children, and I love music.

I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.