In my early twenties, if I wasn’t getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long – I hope we get better with age.
BONNIE RAITTThank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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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 think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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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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There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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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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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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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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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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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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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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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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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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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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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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