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

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Source : Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

Linda Ronstadt

#Artist Quotes #Voice Quotes #Singing Quotes

“The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.”
“Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.”
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
“Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.”
“I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.”
“I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!”
“It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.”
“It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.”

Source : "The health care reality conservatives ignore" by Paul Waldman, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2013.

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