Best Bonnie Raitt Quotes
- I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with. Advertising Agencies
- 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. Accept
- I have a really full life, both within music and outside it. Both
- I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. Absence
- I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th. Album
- I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label… Embodiment
- I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star. Beautiful
- In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. Age
- 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. Influence
- My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. Ballad
- People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it. All
- 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… Been
- Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. Energy
- Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world. Colbert
- The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work. Band
- With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist. Artist
- 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… Better
- 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… Afternoon
- 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 -… Artist
- Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love… Daunting
- 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… Able
- I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans… Annie
- '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… All
- I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived,… Blues
- 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… From