186 Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

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    I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

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  • Author Linda Ronstadt
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    I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

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    I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

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    I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

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    When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

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

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    I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

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    I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

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