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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.

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
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tucson
Arizona
Linda Maria Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt
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the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
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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.
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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 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.
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American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.
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You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.
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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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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.
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I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.
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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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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
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The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.
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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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Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
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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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