Bonnie Raitt Quotes

"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."

"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."

"I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time."

"The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources."

"I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with."

"I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all."

"[And while the audience waited patiently for what turned out to be a rather perfunctory] Something to Talk About, ... I Can't Make You Love Me."

"I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me."

"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."