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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. "

Linda Ronstadt

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Saying

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Linda Ronstadt

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Believe

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere. "

" 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

Myself

" Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public. "

" The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically. "

" The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Disease

You

" I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful. "

" 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

Gift

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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