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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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I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
Linda Ronstadt
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
Linda Ronstadt -
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
Linda Ronstadt -
Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.
Linda Ronstadt -
The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
Linda Ronstadt -
The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.
Linda Ronstadt -
Love will abide, take things in stride.
Linda Ronstadt
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In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
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I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.
Linda Ronstadt -
For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.
Linda Ronstadt -
Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
Linda Ronstadt -
the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
Linda Ronstadt -
I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.
Linda Ronstadt
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Story is what's most important.
Linda Ronstadt -
We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.
Linda Ronstadt -
This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
Linda Ronstadt -
Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.
Linda Ronstadt -
I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
Linda Ronstadt -
I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.
Linda Ronstadt
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I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...
Linda Ronstadt -
We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.
Linda Ronstadt -
Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.
Linda Ronstadt -
The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
Linda Ronstadt