Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
BONNIE RAITTWhen 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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Thank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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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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Im 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.
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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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If we are truly each other’s keepers, let’s support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.
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I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that’s a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
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The women’s movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there’s been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.
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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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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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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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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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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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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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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 don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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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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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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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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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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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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I’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist.
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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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