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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.

Bonnie Raitt

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 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
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 think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that’s a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
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Artist Blessing Responsibility
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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Energy Lasts Sun
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.
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Corny Done Political
I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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Influence Positive Influence
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
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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Get Better Heart Thinking
The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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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
I’m proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story – it’s casting, editing, cinematography.
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Editing Stories Together
When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.
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Coast Country Focus Issues Oil
Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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Citizen Important Issues
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.
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Appreciation Real Strong
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

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.

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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.

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