A biography for Linda Ronstadthasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.”
“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.”
“Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.”
“Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.”
“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.”
“In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around.”
“The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.”
“Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.”
“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'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.”