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
ifs i-can
I can't make you love me, if you don't.
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.
full-life
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
couple years careers
My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years. I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
heart thinking age
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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.
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.
thinking advertising-agencies
I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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.
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.
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.
college years feminist
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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.