The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
BONNIE RAITTIn 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years.
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We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
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Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight.
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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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I’m glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn’t that difficult to do. I didn’t take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.
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I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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I don’t know if I’m a heroine; I’m just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.
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I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
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The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it’s very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.
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Thank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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