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
Linda Ronstadt quotes about
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.
My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.
Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.
Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.
Love will abide, take things in stride.
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
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.
I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
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.
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.
Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.