You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
BONNIE RAITTI think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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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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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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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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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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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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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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Ugly ducklings don’t turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
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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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