In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
BONNIE RAITTI’m glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn’t that difficult to do. I didn’t take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.
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I don’t know that I’m unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I’m honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.
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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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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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I’m honored when young people say they’ve gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally.
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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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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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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 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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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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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’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you’re going to be is sloppy or dead.
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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’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
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