The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
BONNIE RAITTI’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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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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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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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 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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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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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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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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Even if the writers don’t get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately – but there’s never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the ’60s – we could do thes
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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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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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The women’s movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there’s been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.
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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 don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Sometimes I’m more true when I’m up onstage than I’m able to be in my regular life. It’s not as exciting to be at home, but I’ve got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
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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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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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I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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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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