Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
BONNIE RAITTThere’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
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And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.
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My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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I’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
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I don’t want to discredit people’s opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that’s much more difficult.
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You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle – it shows people that it’s big business against the people.
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I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I’m in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Ugly ducklings don’t turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
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I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you’re going to be is sloppy or dead.
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I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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I’m glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn’t that difficult to do. I didn’t take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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