I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
BONNIE RAITTI have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide.
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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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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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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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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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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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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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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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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle – it shows people that it’s big business against the people.
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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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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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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
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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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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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