Linda Ronstadt Quotes

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

Music is such a big part of my life.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just something that's always been around. I play saxophone and guitar. I'd definitely like to pursue it, and it's something I'd like to keep going, if not as a career, then as a hobby.

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.