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

Linda Ronstadt

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Linda Ronstadt
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 15
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Opera Singer
Percussionist
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tucson
Arizona
Linda Maria Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt
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When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers. I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
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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.
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The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
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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.
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If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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Love will abide, take things in stride.
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Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.
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I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.
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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.
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So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.
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