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Linda Ronstadt Quotes

born 1946 United States

Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music and country music singer. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award, and many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally.

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For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.

You gave us Rupert Murdoch ,thanks a lot you guys, take him back.

People didn’t have a clue I was Mexican unless they grew up with me…I heard plenty of it…I’d straighten them out fast.

She was trying to soften the blow of the word Mexican…That’s typical of what happens. Mexican Americans are always made to feel invisible.

I feel if I were to organize it correctly I would try to sing like a Mexican and think like a German. You know what I mean? I get it mixed up.

Back in 1967,Tiger Beat magazine asked me what my ambition was for my career. I said I want to become a really good Mexican singer. But it wasn’t noticed or validated

I was bored with rock’n’roll…And I was tired of singing fast songs. I’m a ballad singer. And I like drama and nuance. This music has richer poetic images and more interesting rhythms.

There is a lot of German and French influence there…The music uses accordions and German-style brass bands, reinterpreted in a Mexican style. I like to say that Mexicans took German and French music and made it sexy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Linda Ronstadt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.