I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
BONNIE RAITTThe 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.”
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’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 can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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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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I’m proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story – it’s casting, editing, cinematography.
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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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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
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The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it’s very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.
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I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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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’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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I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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