Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raittis an American blues singer, songwriter and slide guitar player...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 November 1949
CityBurbank, CA
CountryUnited States of America
thinking advertising-agencies
I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
beautiful stars want
I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.
firsts flukes albums
I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.
heart thinking age
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
full-life
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
guitar hell highways
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.
afterlife age get-better
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
We create our own happiness.
school guitar childhood
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.
music real thinking
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
government years creating
In 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 to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
attention pay-attention
The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
jobs writing artist
I'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 me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.
healing thinking broken
'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 experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.