Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
BONNIE RAITTIt’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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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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You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
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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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I’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.
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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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I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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I don’t know if I’m a heroine; I’m just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.
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I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
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