“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.” SongSoundMusicAwarenessMachinesEndlessRepetitionTouringRelentlessWashingWashing Machines Book:Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir Source: Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
“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.” YearsFirstsSoundFirst TimeAwfulGet BetterIt Gets BetterMp3Recorded Music Author:Linda Ronstadt
“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.” StoriesWould BeRunningSoundGoalHappenedStageSingingDescribing Author:Linda Ronstadt
“I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...” LittlesI CanIdeasStuffSoundTermLinesWrittenMinesDrawsGuitarCraftsMelodySongwritingLockedArrangementsSoloVocalCraftsmanshipUseful ThingsGuitar Solos Author:Linda Ronstadt
“The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.” ThinkingWorldMindDreamLyingNextSoundSleepDoorsReadyWake UpHarmonyStudiosNeighborApartmentGlimpseNapsHallwaysDream WorldRecording Studio Author:Linda Ronstadt
