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" Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public. "
Linda Ronstadt
Sometimes
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Years
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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. "
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" You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down. "
Linda Ronstadt
You
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" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Loved
Music
She
" Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing. "
Linda Ronstadt
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Hearing
Listening
" 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 listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. "
Linda Ronstadt
Listen
People
Experience
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Society
You
People
" 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
You
Sky
" Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected. "
Linda Ronstadt
Men
Very
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. "
Linda Ronstadt
You
Culture
Call
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Family
Singing
Voice
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Well
Wrong
Brain
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Age
Family
My Life
" 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 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
Work
Saying
Different
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Desert
Feel
Hate
" 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
" Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet. "
Linda Ronstadt
Crush
Like
Planet
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Look
Love
Nice
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Singer
Think
Famous
" 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
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Car
I Wish
Driving
" I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers. "
Linda Ronstadt
Life
My Life
Been
" I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy. "
Linda Ronstadt
Like
Down
Soft
" 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
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Experience
Sports
Music
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Great
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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. "
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See
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World