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
band profit members
The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
editing together stories
I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.
song people gigs
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
mean artist rocks
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
political done corny
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
giving people inspire
I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.
artist needs labels
With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.
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.
music masculine-and-feminine shapes
There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine
jerk mess persons
I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.
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.
music rocks rock-and-roll
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
art cutting race
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
way looks records
You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.