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Linda Ronstadt is an American singer known for her distinctive voice and versatile musical style. Born on July 15, 1946, she began her music career in the 1960s and is celebrated for her contributions to pop, rock, country, and Latin music.

Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

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“Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people’s physiology and seems to be a reaction to tremendous nerves, fatigue, or self-consciousness. It is rarely a welcome occurrence to the giggler and can feel like going over Niagara Falls without a barrel”

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“The Mexicans have a fervent appreciation of poetry and make regular use of it. It occupies a high and ancient seat in the Mexican culture. The Aztecs called it “a scattering of jades,” jade being what they valued most, far more than the gold for which they were murdered in great numbers by invading Spaniards. They felt that the more profound aspects of certain concepts, whether emotional, philosophical, political, or artistic, could be expressed only in poetry.”

Poetry Mexican Culture

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“Don't know much, but I know I love you.”

Knows Love You Hunting Good Will Misinterpretation

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.”

Made Behinds Audience Standing Uncomfortable Amplifiers

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“My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.”

Feelings School Reading Education

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“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”

Ifs Feels Should Firsts Culture Music Too Much Heard Expression Fine Depends Hero Singing Sorry Musical Showers Curtains Shower Curtains Musical Expression

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Song Sound Music Awareness Machines Endless Repetition Touring Relentless Washing Washing Machines

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“I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.”

Thinking Hard Sex Music Music Love I Love Music

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“The greatest sin is carelessness.”

Sin Shortcomings Carelessness

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

Diversity Radio Fabulous

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“There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.”

People Should Country Able Immigration Illegal Illegal Immigration

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“The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.”

Persons Reason Better Person

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“People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.”

People Reason Written Percent

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“People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves....I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqis, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers.”

People Knows Ideas War Felt Realizing Worry Economy Republican Angry Bunch Germany Voting Frustrated Scapegoat Voting Republican

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.”

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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.”

Littles Hearing Range Soundtracks

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“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.”

Years Firsts Sound First Time Awful Get Better It Gets Better Mp3 Recorded Music

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Should Down And

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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.”

Thinking Strong Lines Brain Effects Fronts New York Color Screens Airplane Saturated

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.”

World Years Real Night Dark Sleep Hundred Years Ago

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.”

Light Night Sleep Blue Decent Bedroom Flooding

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“When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.”

Song White Machines Noise Washing Washing Machines White Noise

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.”

Should Art Music Is Dancing Drawing Silly Delegates

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.”

Needs Art Problem Healing Art Is Heal

Author:Linda Ronstadt

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

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Thinking Firsts Said Stars Numbers Worry Singers Grades Arithmetic

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Ifs Stores Department Department Stores

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“I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.”

Wells I Can Half Happened Things Happen Hats Claudia Hats Off

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“A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.”

People May Heard Talent Singers Sensibility Entitled

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Story is what's most important.”

Important Stories

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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.”

Ifs Stories Able

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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.”

Stories Would Be Running Sound Goal Happened Stage Singing Describing

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Shows Feet Guts Concerts Scream Motown

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“I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.”

Thinking Pops Singers Frank

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Made Important States Song Culture United United States Century Contribution 20th Century Popular Song Important Contributions

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“I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.”

Thinking States America Song United United States Periods Standards Songwriting United States Of America Great American Zenith

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Realizing Doors Bliss Follow Your Bliss

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.”

Government Spending Earning Recessions

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“My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.”

Should Feelings Able Causes Beach Bad Things Erosion

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“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.”

I Can Hard Able Voice Singing My Family Harmony Singers Chameleon

Author:Linda Ronstadt

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

Listening Singing Percent Hearing Nine Ninety Ninety Nine Listening And Hearing

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“I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.”

Thinking Mind Universal

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Believe Might I Believe I Believe In Treatment Helpful

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Trying Body Drug Chemistry Getting High Body Chemistry

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Marijuana has a lot of very good medical uses, and I truly believe it should be legal, but for just recreational use it wasn't my drug. I didn't like it.”

Should Believe Use Drug Very Good Medical Marijuana

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"”

Needs Made Real Talking Nervous Noses Cocaine

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Ifs Remember Reading Addiction Sentences Loaded Love To Read

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.”

World Book Universe Bored Doorways Another World

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.”

Writing Whole Written Whole Life

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Writing Book Home Used Doors Letters Details Glad Journal Diaries Touring

Author:Linda Ronstadt

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Born: July 15, 1946
Known for: Singer
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