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Linda Ronstadt Biography

Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music singer known for singing in a wide range of genres including rock, country, jazz, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award, and many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by The Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities.

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We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

Case, Chance, Ideas, Learn, Limitless, Raised

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Book, Bored, Universe, World

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Growth, Instincts, Skills, Support

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

People, Percent, Reason, Written, Wrong

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

Come, Country, Illegal, Immigration, Indians, People

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Hearing, Listening, Ninety Nine, Percent, Singing

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Music, Music Is, Think, Thinking, Universal, Wonderful

Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

Cocaine, Fast, Needs, Real, Talking, Thought

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers. " I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

Grade, Numbers, Said, Singer, Stars, Thinking

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

Abundance, Artist, Music, Musicianship, Voice

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

Clothes, Notice, Wearing

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

Claudia, Half, Hats, Lennear, Wells

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

Education, Interfered, Reading, School

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

Crying, Goodbye, Grieving, Leaving, Longer, Rejection

The greatest sin is carelessness.

Carelessness, Greatest, Shortcomings, Sin

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

Delegating, Hero, Music, Musical, Sorry

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Beneath, Loving, Philosophy, Thinking, Tonight

Story is what's most important.

Important, Stories, Story

I 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.

Mexican, Music, Overlay, Signatures, Singing, West

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.

Believe, Drug, Marijuana, Medical, Use

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