Linda Ronstadt Quotes

United States, Singer
July 15, 1946

Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American retired popular music singer known for singing in a wide range of genres. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award, and many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Linda Ronstadt
- People
- Reason
- Wrong
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Linda Ronstadt
- Up
- Art
- Healing

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

Linda Ronstadt
- Service
- Public
- Times
Marijuana has a lot of very good medical uses, and I truly believe it should be legal, but for just recreational use it wasn't my drug. I didn't like it.

Linda Ronstadt
- Good
- Believe
- Drug
I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.

Linda Ronstadt
- Strong
- Brain
- Airplane
Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.

Linda Ronstadt
- Music
- Men
- Women
My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

Linda Ronstadt
- School
- Feeling
- Reading
Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

Linda Ronstadt