“You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially ...” — Linda Ronstadt Quote

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.

In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.