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 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.
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.