The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
BONNIE RAITTThe one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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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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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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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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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 have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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With slide guitar, you’re just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It’s a really beautiful instrument in that it’s so responsive, you’re just slipping your hand back and forth.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Thank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
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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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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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I’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
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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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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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