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" 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? "
Linda Ronstadt
Stop
You
Want
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" 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. "
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" Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy. "
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" Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing. "
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Hearing
Listening
" 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. "
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Support
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" 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
" 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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World
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know. "
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Know
Conflict
Christian
" 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. "
Linda Ronstadt
Said
Years
Sometimes
" 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. "
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Well
Wrong
Brain
" 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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" Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected. "
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Like
" I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. "
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People
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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. "
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" I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist. "
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" 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. "
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Some
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. "
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Building
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Sky
" I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization. "
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Money
Go
Honor
" The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person. "
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" I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. "
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Bed
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Much