Gloria Estefan Quotes

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

The thing that concerns me most is that, in the digital age, if we fail to make efforts to maintain the value of our content, there is the high possibility for the value to be greatly reduced, as the history of the music industry has shown.

With piracy, people think it's about getting stuff for free. It's not - it's about getting rid of the middleman that stands between you and your enjoyment of the film or music.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen — the Internet — has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

Pirate Party

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.

I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.

If you write a written book, you're gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person, that person - I couldn't be bothered with it.

Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry will keep on suffering.

The only reason I have any success at all in my career is because of the Internet.

I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.

I wanted so much to come to America and have America hear my music.

Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.