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- Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally. (en)
- When sang, it was a beautiful and different sound I've never heard before. We as individual parts, because we didn't have the luxury of spending a lot of time together on a tour bus ... and knowing each other's moves ... takes years. (en)
- If I didn't hear it on the radio, or if my dad wasn't playing it on the piano, or if my brother wasn't playing it on the guitar or singing it in his boys' choir, or my mother and sister weren't practicing a Broadway tune or a Gilbert and Sullivan song, then I can't do it today. It's as simple as that. All of my influences and my authenticity are a direct result of the music played in that Tucson living room. (en)
- enough clout and ... after years and years of making commercial records, I was entitled to experiment ... the success of the ... entitled me to try the Mexican stuff. (en)
- Rampant eclecticism is my middle name. (en)
- 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. (en)
- Rock is the thumping heart of Linda's music, and the rock world is dominated by males. The biggest stars are male, and so are the back-up musicians ... rock beats are ... phallic, and lyrics ... masculine. ... Janis Joplin, the first great white woman rocker, rattled the bars ... but she died. ... Joni Mitchell ... stylish compete in drawing power with men ... Linda Ronstadt ... has made herself one of the biggest individual rock draws in the world. (en)
- I don't record that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that. (en)
- I now realize I was taking a tremendous risk, and that Joe Smith was looking out for himself, and for me. When it became apparent I wouldn't change my mind, he said: "I love Nelson so much! Can I please come to the sessions." I said "Yes." When the albums ... were successful, Joe congratulated me, and I never said "I told you so." (en)
- Music is meant to lighten your load. By singing it ... you release . And release yourself ... an exercise in exorcism. ... You exorcise that emotion ... and diminish sadness and feel joy. (en)
- 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." (en)
- Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time. (en)
- In the United States we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music together does all this and more. (en)
- In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one. .. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio. (en)
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