Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

My confession: I listen to great music very badly.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

I love Frank Ocean. For me, 'Channel Orange' is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything.

I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.

I love interpreting other people's music.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.