I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
BONNIE RAITTThe 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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
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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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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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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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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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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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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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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 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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