I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
BONNIE RAITTI’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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If we are truly each other’s keepers, let’s support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.
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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 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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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 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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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Thank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
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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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Even 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
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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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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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In my early twenties, if I wasn’t getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long – I hope we get better with age.
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There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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