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" I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really. "
Linda Ronstadt
Thought
Competition
Art
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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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" Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC. "
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" In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more. "
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" 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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Love
Nice
" The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream. "
Linda Ronstadt
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Always
" To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming. "
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Sing
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" I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy. "
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Down
Soft
" I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry. "
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Say
" 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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Years
Sometimes
" The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself. "
Linda Ronstadt
Singing
Like
Myself
" 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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Hate
" 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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Family
Singing
Voice
" I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization. "
Linda Ronstadt
Money
Go
Honor
" People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong. "
Linda Ronstadt
Me
Did
Reason
" 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 one's illegal. They should just be able to come. "
Linda Ronstadt
Immigration
Time
Just
" I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris. "
Linda Ronstadt
Great
Friendship
Sing
" Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked. "
Linda Ronstadt
He
Disease
You
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Think
More
Gift
" Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected. "
Linda Ronstadt
Men
Very
Like
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Singing
Love
Him
" I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft. "
Linda Ronstadt
Say
Watch
Live
" I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me. "
Linda Ronstadt
Work
Me
Singing
" I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff. "
Linda Ronstadt
Kind
Remember
Used
" The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere. "
Linda Ronstadt
Hotel
Hotel Room
Room
" As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while. "
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Me
Singing
Strength
" I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes. "
Linda Ronstadt
Thought
Myself
Others
" I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them. "
Linda Ronstadt
Father
Business
Time
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Through
Flu
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. "
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Famous
You
Sing
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Building
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Sky