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.
BONNIE RAITTI learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
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And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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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 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’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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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.
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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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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 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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Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn’t mean that artists from the rock n’ roll/folk-roots culture – of which he was not really a part – shouldn’t get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
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There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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