186 Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

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.

Life’s full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

Everywhere you go, there’s a soundtrack. You can’t really quite hear it. It’s just a little out of the range of hearing.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can’t you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

I’ve got this weird body chemistry that I don’t like to get high. I’m not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn’t try injectables. But I didn’t like it.

I can’t sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It’s a bad thing altogether.

Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, ‘Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.’

This is an election year, and I think we’re in desperate trouble and it’s time for people to speak up and not pipe 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.