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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.

Bonnie Raitt

I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
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 have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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Full Life Music Outside Really
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
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
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
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
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Contemporary Guitar Need Rocks Song
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
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
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.
BONNIE RAITT

Editing Stories Together
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn’t mean that artists from the rock n’ roll/folk-roots culture – of which he was not really a part – shouldn’t get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
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Artist Great Mean Musical Rocks Style
There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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People Stories Told
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.
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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
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

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