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.
BONNIE RAITTI’m happy to have been a positive influence.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we’re all going, “God, what a jerk I’ve been,” “How could I have married that guy?” or “How could I have done this or that?” With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, “It wasn’t all about them.”
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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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There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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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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I’m glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn’t that difficult to do. I didn’t take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.
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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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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 have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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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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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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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 was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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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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It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle – it shows people that it’s big business against the people.
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With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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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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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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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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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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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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How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.
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Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that’s you and that isn’t necessarily you.
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