Gloria Estefan Quotes

The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine

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• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

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• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

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• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

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• My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

  

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• My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

  

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• From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

  

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• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

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• I love to play music.

  

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• Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

  

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• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  

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• The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • America
  • Age