Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
Linda RonstadtNinety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
Linda RonstadtI grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
Linda RonstadtYou and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.
Linda RonstadtI think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway.
Linda Ronstadt