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.
BONNIE RAITTWith the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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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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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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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 think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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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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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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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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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 like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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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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Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that’s you and that isn’t necessarily you.
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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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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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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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