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.
BONNIE RAITTThe 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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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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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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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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 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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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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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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You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
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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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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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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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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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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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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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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I’m in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
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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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I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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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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Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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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 think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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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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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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