Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
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There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
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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 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 think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
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One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
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The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.
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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
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AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.
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People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.
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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.
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Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.
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I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
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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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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.