Miami Sound Machine Quotes
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Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.
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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
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Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.
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Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
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The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].
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Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.
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Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
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Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.
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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 was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.
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I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.
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I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
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My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
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I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
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I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
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It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.
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Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
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The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
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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.
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My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.