The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
BONNIE RAITTI learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn’t mean that artists from the rock n’ roll/folk-roots culture – of which he was not really a part – shouldn’t get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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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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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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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.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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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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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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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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I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
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I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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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 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 a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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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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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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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
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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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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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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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Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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With slide guitar, you’re just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It’s a really beautiful instrument in that it’s so responsive, you’re just slipping your hand back and forth.
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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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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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