With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
BONNIE RAITTWe can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide.
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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 think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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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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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.
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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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I’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist.
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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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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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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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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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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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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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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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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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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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I’m honored when young people say they’ve gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally.
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I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get started.
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I’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
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A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.
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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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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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