Ugly ducklings don’t turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
BONNIE RAITTI don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
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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 think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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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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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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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I’m hearing is an appreciation of real music.
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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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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 can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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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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You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
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