"…I was singing on the sort of the flat, lower part of my voice. I didn't have all the color and the breath and the sort of airy halo that comes. There's a lot of different textures that you can dial in and out on an unconscious level when you're singing. And you just bring in these colors and textures, and they all express emotion in some way or another. And I didn't have that with me. I was - I thought of myself as a painter that was painting with a limited palette, so I thought, well, I got some darks and lights here. And I've got some maybe some umber, you know? And I can put that in, and I just have to make a really strong drawing, make the image as bold as I can. And that's what I was trying to do with this song."
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On how she initially coped with singing after her Parkinson’s diagnosis in “Linda Ronstadt On Making Music: 'I Knew How To Sing My Whole Life'” in NPR (2019 Sep 13)
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Linda Ronstadt
(born July 15, 1946) is an American and singer. She has earned 11 s, three , two awards, an , and an , and many of her albums have been in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a and a award. She was inducted into the in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities.
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