I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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 finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I’m hearing is an appreciation of real music.
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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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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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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 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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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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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 was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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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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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’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel – it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it’s James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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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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You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
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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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I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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