Linda Ronstadt Quotes - Page 2

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• Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Doors, Numbers, Musical

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• I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Clothes

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• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, White, Machines

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Fashion, Looks, Attention

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Times Like These, Public Service, Entertainers

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Singers, Pops

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Memories, Loss, Poetry

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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

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Government, Earning, Spending

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• 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

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Half, Hats, Wells

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• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Silly, Drawing

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• 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

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• 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

  Ideas, Chance, Limitless

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Romantic, Stars, Thinking

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• 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

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

  Linda Ronstadt

  Progress, Records, Frozen

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• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Country, People, Immigration

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• 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

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• Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Unseen, Clean, Adages

  Song: Long Long Time

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• Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'

  Linda Ronstadt

  Girl, Sex, Queens

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• 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

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• 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

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• I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Shooting, Arms, Too Much

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• We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sleep, Night, Light

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