Top 60 Linda Ronstadt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t know much, but I know I love you.”

— Linda Ronstadt

2. “Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone’s thinking of me and loving me tonight.”

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

5. “Love will abide, take things in stride.”

— Linda Ronstadt

6. “Time washes clean, love’s wounds unseen.”

— Linda Ronstadt

7. “Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.”

— Linda Ronstadt

8. “We’ve got blue light, we’ve got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can’t get a decent night’s sleep.”

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

10. “I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.”

— Linda Ronstadt

11. “Life’s full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.”

— Linda Ronstadt

12. “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?””

— Linda Ronstadt

13. “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.”

— Linda Ronstadt

14. “The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don’t always dream your dream.”

— Linda Ronstadt

15. “Music isn’t just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It’s silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.”

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

17. “I think if you do what’s in your heart – Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn’t even realize there were doors.”

— Linda Ronstadt

18. “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

19. “Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.”

— Linda Ronstadt

20. “My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It’s a bad thing altogether.”

— Linda Ronstadt

21. “Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, ‘Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.’”

— Linda Ronstadt

22. “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.”

— Linda Ronstadt

23. “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.”

— Linda Ronstadt

24. “You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can’t you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.”

— Linda Ronstadt

25. “When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.”

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

28. “I’ve got this weird body chemistry that I don’t like to get high. I’m not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn’t try injectables. But I didn’t like it.”

— Linda Ronstadt

29. “Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other’s sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.”

— Linda Ronstadt

30. “I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.”

— Linda Ronstadt

31. “This is an election year, and I think we’re in desperate trouble and it’s time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”

— Linda Ronstadt

32. “I think there’s mind in nature. There’s a power in nature, and there’s a universal power that you’d better not ignore.”

— Linda Ronstadt

33. “I’m a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family’s music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.”

— Linda Ronstadt

34. “I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.”

— Linda Ronstadt

35. “Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.”

— Linda Ronstadt

36. “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.”

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Linda Ronstadt

38. “Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.”

— Linda Ronstadt

39. “The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.”

— Linda Ronstadt

40. “Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We’ve always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it’s the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It’s really – and it’s everywhere, it’s ubiquitous.”

— Linda Ronstadt

41. “What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it’s very inclusive.”

— Linda Ronstadt

42. “I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the ’20s and went into the ’50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.”

— Linda Ronstadt

43. “I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.”

— Linda Ronstadt

44. “The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.”

— Linda Ronstadt

45. “I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn’t have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.”

— Linda Ronstadt

46. “I get on the airplane and there’s a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there’s a screen blinking at you. I think it’s going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.”

— Linda Ronstadt

47. “There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don’t look like a fashion model.”

— Linda Ronstadt

48. “When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.”

— Linda Ronstadt

49. “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

50. “I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.”

— Linda Ronstadt