186 Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other’s sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

Marijuana has a lot of very good medical uses, and I truly believe it should be legal, but for just recreational use it wasn’t my drug. I didn’t like it.

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.

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.

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.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it’s very inclusive.

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We’ve always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it’s the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It’s really – and it’s everywhere, it’s ubiquitous.

If you don’t have story to tell the public at large – you have to be able to sort of go listen.

American radio from the ’30s through the ’60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.