Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

Let's give them something to talk about.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

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.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

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.

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

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

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

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

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.

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

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

I can't make you love me if you don't,
You can't make your heart feel something it won't.

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.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

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 playing other people's music.

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

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

You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste

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.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

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

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.

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 or in my relationships.