Latest Linda Ronstadt Quotes from Interviews

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Wonderful, Music Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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 through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Thinking, Play, Supportive

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Writing, Whole Life, Whole

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• 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

  Reading, Addiction, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Book, Bored, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

  Linda Ronstadt

  Real, Talking, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Drug, Trying, Getting High

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Marijuana has a lot of very good medical uses, and I truly believe it should be legal, but for just recreational use it wasn't my drug. I didn't like it.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Believe, Marijuana, Drug

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Believe, Might, Helpful

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Thinking, Mind, Universal

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Voice, Singing, Singers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Ninety Nine, Listening, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Government, Earning, Spending

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Beach, Erosion, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Thinking, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Heart, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Singers, Pops

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Song, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Goal, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Feet, Scream, Concerts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Stories, Able, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  People, May, Singers

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Story is what's most important.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Important, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org