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" 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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" 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. "

Linda Ronstadt

Cry

Myself

Say

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist. "

" I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 sang harmony with my family growing up. "

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

" 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

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

" 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

" The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person. "

" 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. "

Linda Ronstadt

Voice

Singing

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Linda Ronstadt

Singing

Strength

" 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 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. "

" You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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

Did

Reason

" 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 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

Singing