186 Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

"Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked."

"You have to erect a fence and say, ''Okay, scale this.''"

"You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan."

"As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while."

"I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers."

"I've been on the road since I was 17, ... and I'm 52. It's enough already."

"I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft."

"The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?"

"The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself."

"I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved."