Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Maria Ronstadtis an American popular music singer. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, and numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth15 July 1946
CityTucson, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.
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.
I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.
I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.
I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.
When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
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 believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.
What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.
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 thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.