The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
BONNIE RAITTThe experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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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 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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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years.
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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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The generation I grew up in was the beginning of “stand up for yourself,” whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn’t have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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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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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’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
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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 can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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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 was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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