Linda Ronstadt Quotes
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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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So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.
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I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
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I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
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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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Story is what's most important.
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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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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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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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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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For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.
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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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Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.
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I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.
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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 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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I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.