What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

- Linda Ronstadt

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

- Linda Ronstadt

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

- 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 o…

- Linda Ronstadt

Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their te…

- Linda Ronstadt

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

- Linda Ronstadt

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

- Linda Ronstadt

I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

- Linda Ronstadt

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.

- Linda Ronstadt