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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

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
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Singer-Songwriter
Tucson
Arizona
Linda Maria Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt
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Everybody
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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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I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.
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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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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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I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
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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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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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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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Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.
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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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Don't know much, but I know I love you.
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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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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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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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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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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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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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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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