Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

About Linda Ronstadt:

Linda Maria Ronstadt is a former American popular music singer. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, and numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award.
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You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

Linda Ronstadt

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

Linda Ronstadt

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.

Linda Ronstadt

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.

Linda Ronstadt

I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

Linda Ronstadt

Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.

Linda Ronstadt

I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes.

Linda Ronstadt

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

Linda Ronstadt

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

Linda Ronstadt

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Linda Ronstadt

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Linda Ronstadt

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

Linda Ronstadt

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.

Linda Ronstadt

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

Linda Ronstadt

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.

Linda Ronstadt

I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you...

Linda Ronstadt

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

Linda Ronstadt

Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC.

Linda Ronstadt

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

Linda Ronstadt

You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.

Linda Ronstadt

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

Author Bio

  • NameLinda Ronstadt
  • DescriptionAmerican pop singer
  • AliasesLinda Maria Ronstadt
  • BornJuly 15, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Actor; Singer-songwriter; Composer; Jazz Musician
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Primetime Emmy Award