I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
BONNIE RAITTI have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
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I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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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.
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It’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
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I’m proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story – it’s casting, editing, cinematography.
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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 are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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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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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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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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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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A 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.
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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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Sometimes I’m more true when I’m up onstage than I’m able to be in my regular life. It’s not as exciting to be at home, but I’ve got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
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I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that.
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I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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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 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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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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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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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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