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

— Linda Ronstadt

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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

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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