Linda Ronstadt Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Linda Ronstadt on Wise Famous Quotes.
Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.
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.
I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.
I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.
My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.
When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.
I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.
Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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.
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.
The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.
Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.
I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'
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.
Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.
I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.
I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me.
The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.
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.
You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.
I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes.
I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic.
There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
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.
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.
I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.
I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.