You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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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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 finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
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Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get started.
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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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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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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
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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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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.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.
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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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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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