I can't make you love me, if you don't. Bonnie Raitt More Quotes by Bonnie Raitt More Quotes From Bonnie Raitt I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography. Bonnie Raitt editingstoriestogether I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice. Bonnie Raitt guitarlessonsvoice With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth. Bonnie Raitt guitarglassesbeautiful I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting. Bonnie Raitt songpeopleyears 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 bathroomdifferentuse I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that. Bonnie Raitt parentblessingjustice My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years. I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back. Bonnie Raitt careerscoupleyears I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult. Bonnie Raitt guitarwantpeople When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment. Bonnie Raitt guitarsongsex Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age. Bonnie Raitt agelongpeople I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life. Bonnie Raitt professional-lifeplanspeople 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 growingboredpeople I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life - were all the right people at the right time. Bonnie Raitt whole-liferight-timepeople I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk. Bonnie Raitt messjerkpersons I just want to be as good a person as I can be. Bonnie Raitt i-canpersonswant The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society. Bonnie Raitt impactblessingthinking Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity. We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn't happen. Bonnie Raitt dreamopportunitymen Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you. Bonnie Raitt birthrolesthinking There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes Bonnie Raitt issueswritingwar Between the redwoods, growing up and enjoying nature, camping on almost every vacation, and getting to go to summer camp in the Adirondacks, it was really very apparent to me that we had to preserve what we had on the earth. Bonnie Raitt vacationgrowing-upsummer
