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Bonnie Raitt Quotes

American - Musician | November 8, 1949 -

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.

Time People Spending Time Enough

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Power Sun Energy Nobody Solar Taxes

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Women Music Black And White Men Cool

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Religion People Hell Go Scared Been

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Age Time Together Old Age Me Think

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

Respect People Me Influence Surprise

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. 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.

Music Morning Talent Generation You

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.

Justice Struggle Childhood Peace You

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.

Women Myself Me Early Career Play

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

Life Time Broken Healing Me Think

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!

Character Singing Care Someone Look

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.

Life Music Obstacles Thinking Years

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