Miami Sound Machine Quotes
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It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.
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I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!
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Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?
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My mom was definitely very strict with me.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
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My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
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If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?
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I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
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I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
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You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.
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It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.
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I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
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I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
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If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
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It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.