Bonnie Raitt

Quotes by Bonnie Raitt

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Singer-songwriter · American · 1949

American singer-songwriter (born 1949)

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

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

“I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.”

“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.”

“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”

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

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“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.”
— Bonnie Raitt
bonnie-raitt religion

“I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.”
— Bonnie Raitt
Music Women

“I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.”
— Bonnie Raitt
Me Better Happen

“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
Political Me Los Angeles

“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”
— Bonnie Raitt
People Hell Scared

“I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.”
— Bonnie Raitt
People Spending Time

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

“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, wher...”
— Bonnie Raitt
Change Government

“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, an...”
— Bonnie Raitt
Gratitude Happy Great