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
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.
kids people incredibles
I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.
aspire content
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.
simply
He's like having my very own Jimi Hendrix, ... There's simply nothing he can't play well.
influence positive-influence
I'm happy to have been a positive influence.
knocked obvious roots
I just was knocked over by the obvious roots of the blues.
open
He used to let me open for him and he tuned my guitar.