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 RAITTReally important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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 experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage.
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I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
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With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that.
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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.
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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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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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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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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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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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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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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