Even if the writers don’t get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately – but there’s never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the ’60s – we could do thes
BONNIE RAITTIn 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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I’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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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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I’m honored when young people say they’ve gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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The women’s movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there’s been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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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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My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years.
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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
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I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
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I don’t know if I’m a heroine; I’m just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.
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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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Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
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There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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In my early twenties, if I wasn’t getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long – I hope we get better with age.
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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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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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