I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It … - Linda Ronstadt

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Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

Linda Ronstadt

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.

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