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.
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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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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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There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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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 generation I grew up in was the beginning of “stand up for yourself,” whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn’t have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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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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Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight.
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People 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.
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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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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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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 made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide.
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