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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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" To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming. "

" I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you. "

" 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. "

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

" I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers. "

" 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. "

" I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really. "

" I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream. "

" I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy. "

" 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. "

" I always sang harmony with my family growing up. "

" 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. "

" The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "