Bonnie RaittPeople come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.361HumanityTime
Bonnie RaittLife gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste. ✨ Nick Of Time. Song by Bonnie Raitt, 1989.342LifeTime
Bonnie RaittI 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.364LifeThought
Bonnie RaittI never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.375Humor
Bonnie RaittIt's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.332Thought
Bonnie RaittThere would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything343Humor
Bonnie RaittNobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the cooles… ▶357HumanityTime
Bonnie RaittIn blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.324Death
Bonnie RaittSolar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.281Politics
Bonnie RaittI don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.358Thought
Bonnie Raitt'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 richness that you sing from... The experience… ▶3610LifeThoughtTime
Bonnie RaittFinding 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.337HumanityLove
Bonnie RaittI 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.282HumanityLifeThought
Bonnie RaittI think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activis… ▶272LifeThoughtTime
Bonnie RaittI'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write… ▶295HumanityLoveReflection
Bonnie RaittI 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 would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long perio… ▶3410ThoughtTime
Bonnie RaittThere's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine284Love
Bonnie RaittElvis 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 - of which he was not really a pa… ▶3310Hope
Bonnie RaittIn 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel… ▶297DeathPolitics
Bonnie RaittPat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull th… ▶254Humanity
Bonnie RaittThe fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.243Humor
Bonnie RaittSince 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.277Reflection
Bonnie RaittThe anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or r… ▶278HumanityPoliticsTruth
Bonnie RaittOne 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 heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or J… ▶201LifeReadingThought
Bonnie RaittThere's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.289LifeTime
Bonnie RaittDistribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is in… ▶224Reading
Bonnie RaittI grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.246Politics
Bonnie RaittThe great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.192Reflection
Bonnie RaittThank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.181Thought
Bonnie RaittPlaying guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it… ▶203Thought
