Linda Ronstadt Quotes

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

I see myself as a story teller.

The voice is a second face.

We are the storytelling animal.

One of the most powerful things we have is to tell our story.

A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.