Bonnie Raitt Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Struggle, Native American, Rights

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• The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.

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  Cancer, Rights, Air

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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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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  Real, Struggle, Kids

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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. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

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  Mean, Ghetto, Games

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• I don't need any drug to show me Heaven And I sure know how to spend plenty of time cleaning Hell But I'm missin' that feeling of falling.

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  Fall, Heaven, Drug

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• My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

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  Bob, Ballads, Dylan

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• I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.

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  School, Guitar, People

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• One of the things that I'm glad about, though, is that regular people can relate to me.

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  People, Glad, Relate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

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  Unique, People, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

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  Powerful, Ideas, Perceive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

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  Voice, Guitar, Lessons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.

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  Nice, People, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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  Beautiful, Glasses, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

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  Hero, Organization, People

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

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  Jerk, Mess, Persons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

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  Giving, People, Inspire

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

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  Use, Different, Bathroom

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment.

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  Song, Sex, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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  People, Plans, Professional Life

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

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  Editing, Together, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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  Responsibility, Artist, Blessing

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

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  Influence, Positive Influence, Has Beens

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

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  Guy, Age, Looks

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• I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting.

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  Song, Years, People

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• It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.

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  Stuff, Realizing, Clear

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