Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much, — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car,… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“Since there are always talented players in these emerging categories, no matter how grating they may be to the ear of the… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“The marketing geniuses on the corporate side of the country music labels had decided to start using focus groups to test their… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
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… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
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… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends, the precariousness… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image