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Linda Ronstadt
American
Musician
Born:
Jul 15
,
1946
Like
Me
Music
People
Singing
You
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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.
Linda Ronstadt
Time
Legal
People
Immigration
Country
Just Be
Indians
Able
Come
Came
Question
Legal Immigration
Just
Should
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
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
You
World
Later
Way
Those
Responsible
Slough
See
About
Having
Having Children
Until
Makes
Off
Forget
Children
Different
Little
Different Way
Lives
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.
Linda Ronstadt
Me
Conflict
Somebody
Cloud
Christian
Out
Find
Rather
Know
Concert
Audience
Real
Go
Republican
Fundamental
Enjoyment
Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.
Linda Ronstadt
Men
Delicate
Like
Very
Being
Rejected
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.
Linda Ronstadt
Love
Care
Singing
Band
Doors
Jim
About
Something
Him
Were
His
Very
The Doors
Fantastic
I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.
Linda Ronstadt
People
Remember
Kind
Impatient
Feel
Stuff
Used
Who
Fast
Things
The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
Linda Ronstadt
You
People
Other
Dream
Be Prepared
Always
Your
Your Dream
Prepared
Thing
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
Music
Myself
You
Job
Hopeless
Say
Case
Cry
Make
Always
Very
Much
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
You
Sky
Country
Big
Building
See
Only
Between
Like
Buildings
Up
Where
Manhattan
Grew
Then
Much
Lived
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
Me
You
Flu
Voice
Could
Through
Throw
Had
Sing
Canal
Fever
Anything
Root
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
Love
You
Yourself
Situation
Nice
Think
Something
Rather
Look
Discourage
Get
May
Where
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
Time
Great
Business
People
Father
Own
My Own
Weddings
Had
Knew
Picnic
Goodwill
Know
Great Time
Trade
Balls
Mexico
Very
Families
Northern
Dependent
Them
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
Music
Family
Change
Singing
Harmony
Able
Voice
Singer
Because
Always
Lot
Really
Hard
Chameleon
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
Book
About
Put
Contacts
Couple
Got
Contract
Did
Just
Different
Which
Interested
Companies
Specifically
Publishing
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
Music
Everybody
Only
Piano
Over
House
Opera
She
Read
Learned
How
Go
Did
Loved
Grandmother
Radio
Play
Played
Playing
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.
Linda Ronstadt
You
Finally
Neurologist
Parkinson
He
Said
Very
Shocked
Disease
Oh
Hard
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
States
Like
Call
Mexico
Which
Then
United
United States
Thing
Third
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
Linda Ronstadt
Music
Experience
People
Live
Other
Musical
Musical Experience
Mostly
Listen
Live Music
Playing
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
Best
Strength
Me
Singing
Older
Think
Parkinson
Had
Developed
Sing
Got
Disease
Quite
Quite A While
Happened
While
I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.
Linda Ronstadt
Spiritual
Atheist
Maybe
Your
Believes
Basic
I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy.
Linda Ronstadt
Love
Down
Everything
Like
Anything
Soft
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
Linda Ronstadt
You
Sometimes
Live
Mine
Out
Some
Had
Years
Did
Frivolous
Public
I always sang harmony with my family growing up.
Linda Ronstadt
Family
Harmony
Always
Up
Sang
Growing
Growing Up
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
Life
Music
Home
Family
Age
My Life
Before
Otherwise
Arbitrary
Tried
Record
Never
Heard
Up
Anything
Growing
Chose
Growing Up
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.
Linda Ronstadt
Myself
People
Other
Way
Some
Had
Look
Make
Content
Around
Lot
Get
Useful
Ever
Things
Chances
The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.
Linda Ronstadt
Myself
Singing
Out
About
Voice
Never
Like
Duet
Get
Thing
Things
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