Bonnie Raitt Quotes (21 Quotes)

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

And while the audience waited patiently for what turned out to be a rather perfunctory Something to Talk About, ... I Can't Make You Love Me.

She's got a real attitude for standing up for what she thinks. She plays a mean guitar, she's a great rock 'n' roll singer and we have a great relationship. She's kind of a little sister to me.

So much hope in the room and out there in the country.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at 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, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

What do you think Baby, you're behind the times.

When the sweeping ballad Shelter in the Rain took on new meaning after Hurricane Katrina, he earmarked all proceeds from that track for relief efforts. He stands above as a cultural figure, ... above partisanship and above reproach.

I am very excited to get in this early (in my career), especially being the only woman tonight, ... to last this long (in the music business) is enough for me.

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

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

It's not easy to undo what's done, or to speak too freely ,to just anyone, and if this takes more, than you bargained for, boy it's time you learned, not to talk so loud, walk so proud, you're coming on.

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 just was knocked over by the obvious roots of the blues.

Two women guitar players on stage at the same time, ... and it took Maria Muldaur to do it.

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 of our most treasured national resources.

There wouldn't be any rhythmic music if not for sexuality. Sensuality and sexuality is at once complex and simple. It shouldn't be cheapened by a girlie show.

Sarah and the women did an incredible thing last year, and I don't think the music business will ever be the same.

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

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

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 was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.