Linda Ronstadt Quotes

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

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.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

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.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for 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.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

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.

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.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

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

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

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.

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.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

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 was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

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.

Story is what's most important.

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.

A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

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

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

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 only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

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.