Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
Linda RonstadtMusic should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.
Linda RonstadtThe government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.
Linda RonstadtNinety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
Linda RonstadtI can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...
Linda Ronstadt