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 RAITTThank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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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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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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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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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
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I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that’s a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
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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 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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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide.
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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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There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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