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Music Quotes by Bonnie Raitt
- The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
- There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
- There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine
- 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…
- I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
- I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
- There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
- I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
- I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
- With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard…
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