Linda Ronstadt Quotes
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Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
— Linda Ronstadt
What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.
— Linda Ronstadt
Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— 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
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
Story is what's most important.
— Linda Ronstadt
When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
— Linda Ronstadt
My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
— Linda Ronstadt
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
— Linda Ronstadt
Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.'
— 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
Love will abide, take things in stride.
— Linda Ronstadt
Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
— Linda Ronstadt
The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.
— Linda Ronstadt
If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
— Linda Ronstadt
I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.
— Linda Ronstadt
The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.
— Linda Ronstadt
Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
— Linda Ronstadt
The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
— Linda Ronstadt
In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— 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
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
Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.
— Linda Ronstadt
To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— 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
I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.
— Linda Ronstadt
I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
— Linda Ronstadt
God scares me when you get Him indoors.
— Linda Ronstadt
I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
— Linda Ronstadt
Don't know much, but I know I love you.
— Linda Ronstadt
I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.
— Linda Ronstadt
The greatest sin is carelessness.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
— 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
Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.
— Linda Ronstadt
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
You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.
— Linda Ronstadt
The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.
— Linda Ronstadt
Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.
— Linda Ronstadt
I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
I always sang harmony with my family growing up.
— Linda Ronstadt
I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
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.
— Linda Ronstadt
I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.
— Linda Ronstadt
I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.
— Patty Loveless
