Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler is a Spanish-Filipino singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer who is widely regarded as the King of Latin Pop. He has sold over 100 million records (albums and singles combined) worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Spanish speaking artists ever. Enrique Iglesias has scored over 150 number-one songs across all of the Billboard charts.
He has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two number-ones, and holds the record for producing 27 number-one Spanish-language singles on the Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks. He also holds the record for most number-one hits and the longest-running number-one hit on that chart. Iglesias also has 14 number-ones on Billboard’s Dance charts, more than any other male artist.
Some of the best quotes from Enrique Iglesias are listed below.
- “And people coming up asking for autographs, there’s only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I’m eating.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “As an artist, I’ve been very fortunate.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I always respect a woman.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I am really passionate about sports in general – especially water sports.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I can be you hero baby. I can kiss away the pain. I will stand by you forever. You can take my breath away” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I care about politics just like any other citizen. I’m against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I don’t care what people say. My music’s, my music.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I don’t like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I don’t sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I’m a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don’t ever want to wake up.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn’t like Hefner’s Playboy Mansion. If it was, I’d still be living at home!” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it’s music, take it seriously.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I prefer love over sex.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I really want to fall in love.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I wouldn’t change anything. I’ve made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I’ve learned.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I’d have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I’m happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “If you can’t,can’t be yourself what are you living for? If you can’t, can’t be yourself you’re gonna lose it all” – Enrique Iglesias
- “If you come from Spain, you have to play football.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “If you’re buying an album because of the face on it, you’re stupid.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I’m a good person, but with many defects.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I’m not a heartthrob. I hate that word.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I’m so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that’s all you have.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “I’ve worked a lot during the night. But I don’t sleep in the day either.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “Love is one of my main inspirations.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “My best personality trait that I think I’m very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “My grandfather’s 86 and he’s having a baby. Man, I hope when I’m 86 I can have babies.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “Realistically, English is a universal language; it’s the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “The Backstreet Boys….they really do have good music!” – Enrique Iglesias
- “The one thing about music is that there are no rules.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “The one thing I’ve learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don’t get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they’re going to have to ride. That’s the hard work.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It’s always been the same, but it’s far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn’t stay away from it any longer.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “The way I look at it, I’d rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, ‘that’s for complaining.’ Not many people can do what they really like in life.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “There hasn’t been one moment in my career where I felt I didn’t have any control over the creative aspects of my records.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that’s what joins musicians together around the world.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “When I’m in love, I wake up happy.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “When theres love theres good sex.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?” – Enrique Iglesias
- “Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that’s always going to change, and love is never going to change.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “Yes, I have made a woman cry.” – Enrique Iglesias
- “You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.” – Enrique Iglesias
