American - Musician | July 15, 1946 -
The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.
Linda Ronstadt
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Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC.
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To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.
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I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes.
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I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'
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I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.
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I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.
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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.
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You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.
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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.
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People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.
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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.
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