Top 61 Quotes by Linda Ronstadt

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

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

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic.

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