Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
BONNIE RAITTReligion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
BONNIE RAITTI’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
BONNIE RAITTWhether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
BONNIE RAITTI was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
BONNIE RAITTA lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.
BONNIE RAITTThe great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
BONNIE RAITTI’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
BONNIE RAITTI grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
BONNIE RAITTIm happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up.
BONNIE RAITTThere would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
BONNIE RAITTPlaying guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
BONNIE RAITTI 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.
BONNIE RAITTPat 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 RAITTPeople write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that’s partly my job this time around.
BONNIE RAITTI 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.
BONNIE RAITTI 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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