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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.

Bonnie Raitt

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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Faith God Spiritual
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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Convince Downside Incredible Music Talent
I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
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Feels Heart Love Something
I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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People Plans Professional Life
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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Ballads Bob Dylan
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
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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Everything Music Rocks Roll
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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Rising Up Thank God World
The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Deeper Emotion Experience Make
I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
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Balance Being True Knows
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of “stand up for yourself,” whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn’t have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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College Equal Feminist Years
People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that’s partly my job this time around.
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Around Partly People Thank Time Write
I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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Influence Positive Influence
Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that’s you and that isn’t necessarily you.
BONNIE RAITT

Birth Roles Thinking
I’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist.
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Artist Jobs Musicologist Writing

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