I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
BONNIE RAITTIf 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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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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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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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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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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that’s a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
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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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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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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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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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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.
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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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