I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
BONNIE RAITTIt’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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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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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 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 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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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 we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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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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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 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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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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