My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
BONNIE RAITTI 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.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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Ugly ducklings don’t turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
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You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
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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 my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of 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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Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up.
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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 like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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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 was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that’s partly my job this time around.
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Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight.
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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 one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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