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

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
American
Fabulous
Diversity
Radio

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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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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 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.
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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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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
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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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Don't know much, but I know I love you.
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I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
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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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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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Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
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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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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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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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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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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 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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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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