Linda Ronstadt quotes

Linda Ronstadt is an acclaimed American singer known for her versatile voice and influence across multiple music genres, including rock, country, and Latin. Her career features numerous Grammy Awards and platinum albums, making her one of the most successful female recording artists in history. She continues to inspire generations with her groundbreaking collaborations and powerful performances. Here are 21 of her quotes:

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

For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.

Linda Ronstadt

You gave us Rupert Murdoch, thanks a lot you guys, take him back.

Linda Ronstadt

I feel if I were to organize it correctly I would try to sing like a Mexican and think like a German. You know what I mean? I get it mixed up.

Linda Ronstadt

I can sing in my brain...I sing in my brain all the time. It's not quite the same as doing it physically. There's a physical feeling in singing that's just like skiing down a hill. Except better, because I'm not a very good skier.

Linda Ronstadt

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 ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

Linda Ronstadt

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

Linda Ronstadt

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

Linda Ronstadt

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

Linda Ronstadt

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.

Linda Ronstadt

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.

Linda Ronstadt

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

Linda Ronstadt

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

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

Linda Ronstadt

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

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Linda Ronstadt

It's always like that when you record: You always think that you can do a better [job]. You know, 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? In those days, we didn't fix anything.

Linda Ronstadt

People didn't have a clue I was Mexican unless they grew up with me...I heard plenty of it...I'd straighten them out fast.

Linda Ronstadt