Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I’m hearing is an appreciation of real music.
BONNIE RAITTHow 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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I’m in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
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Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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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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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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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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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you’re going to be is sloppy or dead.
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I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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If 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.
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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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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
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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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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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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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