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I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.

Bonnie Raitt

It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle – it shows people that it’s big business against the people.
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Energy Radical Real Republican Struggle
And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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Education Position Women World
When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel – it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it’s James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
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Brown Feel Resonates Song True
I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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Influence Positive Influence
I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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City Confined One Period Think Time
The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Deeper Emotion Experience Make
You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
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Accountability People Sobriety
I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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Afterlife Age Get Better
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
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Music Real Thinking
Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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Less Life Mighty Waste
I finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
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House Play White
I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
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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Life Momogamous People Right Time Whole
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
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Celebrated Encourage Made Resources Style
Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage.
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Age Amount Courage Long People Together
I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get started.
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Artist Looks Revolution Singers

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