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I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

Bonnie Raitt

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I’m hearing is an appreciation of real music.
BONNIE RAITT

Appreciation Real Strong
The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
BONNIE RAITT

Band Member Profit
The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
BONNIE RAITT

Attention Bites Knows
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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Careers Couple Years
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
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
BONNIE RAITT

Kids Real Struggle
Ugly ducklings don’t turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
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Duckling Lakes Swans Ugly
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.
BONNIE RAITT

Corny Done Political
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
BONNIE RAITT

Successful Thinking Years
Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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Childhood Guitar School
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
BONNIE RAITT

Less Life Mighty Waste
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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Games Ghetto Mean
The women’s movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there’s been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.
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Consciousness Recovery Resurgence Self Thinking
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
BONNIE RAITT

Country Garden School
I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
BONNIE RAITT

People Plans Professional Life

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