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People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: About Down Each Feminist Gee How Ignored Lot Lovers Men Men And Women Music None Other People People Say Political Proud Really Say Sing Songs Talked Treat Us Want Well Women You

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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Band Fifth Member Work

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I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Annie City Confined Fans Get Gun Long Long Period Offered Over Period Shows Take Think Time Upset Wanted Where Would Your I Think

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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.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Around Artist Been Being Considered Curator Fred Job Just Letters Love Me More Partly People Roll Significant Singer-Songwriter Sure Thank Them Time Turning Wallace Way Would Write I Love

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I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Always Bored Chords Else Folk Freer Get Grasp Guitar Head Hear How Kind Know Lessons Love Never Over Piano Play Reach Same Something Something Else Tend Three Took I Love

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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.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Around Get Gone Guitar Hat Honored Influence Know Live Live Shows Me People People Say Personally Records Say School Shows Slide Walk Young Young People Youtube

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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: About Across Arts Classes Cut Does Genres Great Great Thing Music Popular Popular Music Races Really Thing

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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.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Ballads Band Blues Contemporary Folk Great Guitar Half Hour Hour And A Half Just Many Might Need Off Pat People Pull Rock Rock Band Sit Songs I Can

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I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: About Artists Because Being Going Job Just Just Because Moment Our Out Pasture Rock Rock N Roll Roll Same Same Things Should Things Think Through Write Wrote I Think

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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.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Artists Better Bit Blues Compromised Culture Elvis End Get Great He His Jazz Like Mean Might Musical Older Part Really Rock Style Towards Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: November 8th, 1949

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