Linda Ronstadt Quotes
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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 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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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.
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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
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The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
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I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
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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 was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.
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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.
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Story is what's most important.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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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.
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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 think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.
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For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.
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We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.
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I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
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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.
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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.
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Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.
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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.
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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...
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Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.