Linda Ronstadt Quotes
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You gave us Rupert Murdoch ,thanks a lot you guys, take him back.
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I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.
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Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.
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When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
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Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song
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The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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Don't know much, but I know I love you.
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I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.
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I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
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I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.
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The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
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Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.
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I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.
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Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.
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Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
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The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
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I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.