There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
BONNIE RAITTI can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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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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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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It’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
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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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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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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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The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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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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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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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up.
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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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