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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.

Bonnie Raitt

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.
BONNIE RAITT

Beautiful Glasses Guitar Instruments
I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
BONNIE RAITT

Albums Firsts Flukes
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
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Calling Political Religious
It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.
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Influence People Surprise
I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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Games Ghetto Mean
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that’s a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
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Artist Blessing Responsibility
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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Balance Being True Knows
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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Country Garden School
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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Faith God Spiritual
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Kids Real Struggle
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
BONNIE RAITT

Brother Fall Knew Nice Off Year
People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that’s partly my job this time around.
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Around Partly People Thank Time Write
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.
BONNIE RAITT

Honest People Unique
The women’s movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there’s been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.
BONNIE RAITT

Consciousness Recovery Resurgence Self Thinking
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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Everything Music Rocks Roll

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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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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