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

Let's give them something to talk about. — Bonnie Raitt

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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. — Bonnie Raitt

I just want to be as good a person as I can be. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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

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

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

We can live in fear or act out of hope. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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

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

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

I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work. — John Raitt

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

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

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

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. — Bonnie Raitt

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive. — John Raitt

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
Colvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp. — Art Garfunkel

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

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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. — Bonnie Raitt

If I can talk, I can sing. — John Raitt

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool. — Billy Preston

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

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

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

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

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