Top 35 Linda Ronstadt Quotes

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.

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 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.

You don’t forget you have Parkinson’s disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

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.

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’m your basic atheist that believes in maybe – I’m a spiritual atheist.

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.

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.

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.

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’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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Full disclosure here – I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

Men are very delicate. They don’t like being rejected.