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
long people get-better
Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age.
use different bathroom
I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
backstage best highlight onstage seen summer thrilled vibe
I'm completely thrilled to be a part of this. I have to say, this is the highlight of the summer for me. This is one of a kind and long overdue. It's the best vibe I've ever seen backstage and onstage as well.
sometimes hours plant
It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.
complex music rhythmic sensuality sexuality
There wouldn't be any rhythmic music if not for sexuality. Sensuality and sexuality is at once complex and simple. It shouldn't be cheapened by a girlie show.
cancer water important
The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.