Miami Sound Machine Quotes
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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 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.
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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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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're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.
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I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
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It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.
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Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.
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The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.
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We do have the power to save one another...
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When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].
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Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
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There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
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How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.
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Everybody's not as fortunate as I've been that can have their hubby with them on the road, that we can do whatever we want and mainly be honest with the kids. Just the time that you do give them, make it be great time. It doesn't have to be hours.
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I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
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I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
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My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record.
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A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.
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There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.
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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.