You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
BONNIE RAITTEven if the writers don’t get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately – but there’s never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the ’60s – we could do thes
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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I finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
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I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get started.
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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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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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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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With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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