Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people love.

When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

Music should always be an adventure.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.