186 Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

"There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model."

"I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me."

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

"I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that."

"the greatest sin is carelessness."

"People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong."

"I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life."

"Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public."

"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."

"You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people."