Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Maria Ronstadtis an 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. Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth15 July 1946
CityTucson, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.
Love will abide, take things in stride.
The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.
I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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.
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.
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me.
I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.
The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.
To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.
We're going to cover about 80 percent of the 20th Century.