Linda Ronstadt

I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We…

— 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

People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves....I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this…

— 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…

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— 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

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

— Linda Ronstadt

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

I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage…

— 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 think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and…

— Linda Ronstadt

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the…

— 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

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It…

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— 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 elements of voice and style are braided together like twine, consisting of these attempts to copy other artists, or an instrument,…

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a…

— Linda Ronstadt

Story is what's most important.

— Linda Ronstadt

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

— 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