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
fall heaven feelings
I don't need any drug to show me Heaven And I sure know how to spend plenty of time cleaning Hell But I'm missin' that feeling of falling.
successful thinking years
One 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 Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
long depth soulfulness
There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
people accountability sobriety
You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
feelings feels extremes
I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
style resources made
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.
school guitar people
I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
book
I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.
waste
Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste
inspirational
We can live in fear or act out of hope.
bob ballads dylan
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
addiction focus energy
When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.
black-and-white men saws
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
god faith spiritual
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.