Linda Ronstadt

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

— Linda Ronstadt

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

— Linda Ronstadt

“God scares me when you get Him indoors.”

— Linda Ronstadt

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

— Linda Ronstadt

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

— Linda Ronstadt

The greatest sin is carelessness.

— Linda Ronstadt

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

— Linda Ronstadt

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

— 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 thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

— Linda Ronstadt

I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy.

— 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

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

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want…

— 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…

— Linda Ronstadt

Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and…

— Linda Ronstadt

I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on…

— 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…

— Linda Ronstadt

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough…

— 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…

— Linda Ronstadt

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the…

— Linda Ronstadt

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft…

— Linda Ronstadt

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…

— Linda Ronstadt

I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to…

— Linda Ronstadt

“The Mexicans have a fervent appreciation of poetry and make regular use of it. It occupies a high and ancient seat in…

— Linda Ronstadt

This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not…

— Linda Ronstadt

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds…

— Linda Ronstadt

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African…

— Linda Ronstadt

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going…

— Linda Ronstadt

Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They…

— Linda Ronstadt

“The marketing geniuses on the corporate side of the country music labels had decided to start using focus groups to test their…

— Linda Ronstadt

Love will abide, take things in stride.

— Linda Ronstadt

I've thrown away the blues, I'm tired of being used.

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

Story is what's most important.

— Linda Ronstadt

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt