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Quotes by Bonnie Raitt

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
– 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 would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
– Bonnie Raitt
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.
– Bonnie Raitt
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
– Bonnie Raitt
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.
– Bonnie Raitt
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.
– Bonnie Raitt
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.
– Bonnie Raitt
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.
– Bonnie Raitt
There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
– Bonnie Raitt
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
– Bonnie Raitt
Playing 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 was a hobby - nothing more.
– 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
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
– Bonnie Raitt
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 with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
– Bonnie Raitt