186 Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist."

"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."

"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."

"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."