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" Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later. "
Linda Ronstadt
See
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World
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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. "
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" I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. "
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" 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. "
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" I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization. "
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" I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then I went into a building where you couldn't see the sky at all. I didn't like that so much. "
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You
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" 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. "
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" I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff. "
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" I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did. "
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Different
" I always sang harmony with my family growing up. "
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Growing
Harmony
Growing Up
" 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.' "
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" Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems. "
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Problems
Art
" The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself. "
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Like
Myself
" I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. "
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Bed
Wish
Much
" I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really. "
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Thought
Competition
Art
" You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people. "
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Society
You
People
" 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. "
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Think
More
Gift
" I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. "
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Look
Love
Nice
" Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet. "
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Crush
Like
Planet
" I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic. "
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Singing
Love
Him
" Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected. "
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Men
Very
Like
" In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around. "
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Find
Word
Time
" Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can't do any of that now. I wish I could. I don't miss performing, particularly, but I miss singing. "
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Car
I Wish
Driving
" I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. "
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Think
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" I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy. "
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Like
Down
Soft
" I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran Desert, which is - extends to both sides of the border. I'm really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there's a fence, you know, running through it. "
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Desert
Feel
Hate
" 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. "
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Well
Wrong
Brain
" To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming. "
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Any
Sing
Capacity
" 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. "
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Through
Flu
Me
" I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved. "
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Quality
Always
Happy