American - Musician | July 15, 1946 -
I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy.
Linda Ronstadt
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Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
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I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did.
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I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.
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For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.
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I always sang harmony with my family growing up.
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I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then I went into a building where you couldn't see the sky at all. I didn't like that so much.
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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.
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The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.
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The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
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I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.
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I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.
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