I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
BONNIE RAITTMy parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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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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The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we’re all going, “God, what a jerk I’ve been,” “How could I have married that guy?” or “How could I have done this or that?” With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, “It wasn’t all about them.”
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Sometimes I’m more true when I’m up onstage than I’m able to be in my regular life. It’s not as exciting to be at home, but I’ve got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
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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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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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’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
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Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn’t mean that artists from the rock n’ roll/folk-roots culture – of which he was not really a part – shouldn’t get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
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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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I’m proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story – it’s casting, editing, cinematography.
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The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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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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