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.
BONNIE RAITTI can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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I don’t know that I’m unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I’m honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.
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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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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.
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In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.
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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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I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get started.
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I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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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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The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we’re all going, “God, what a jerk I’ve been,” “How could I have married that guy?” or “How could I have done this or that?” With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, “It wasn’t all about them.”
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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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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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Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that’s you and that isn’t necessarily you.
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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’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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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Those of us who grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity.
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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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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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