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
struggle native-american rights
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
girl guy political
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.
song guitar rocks
Pat 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 that off.
people
There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
home ordinary able
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.
real struggle kids
The 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 radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.
thinking squash trying
I 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.
play white house
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
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.
responsibility blessing unique
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that's a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
full-life
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.