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Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. - Bonnie Raitt

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. - Bonnie Raitt

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. - Bonnie Raitt

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

I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80. - Bonnie Raitt

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. - Bonnie Raitt

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music. - Bonnie Raitt

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. - Bonnie Raitt

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55! - Bonnie Raitt

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music. - Bonnie Raitt

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. - Bonnie Raitt

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist. - Bonnie Raitt

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

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective. - Bonnie Raitt

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. - Bonnie Raitt

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. - Bonnie Raitt

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. - Bonnie Raitt

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

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. - Bonnie Raitt

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