The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it’s very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.
BONNIE RAITTSolar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
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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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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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And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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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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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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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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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 know that I’m unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I’m honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.
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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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The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
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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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When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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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 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 would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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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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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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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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