We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
BONNIE RAITTI thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you’re going to be is sloppy or dead.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.
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I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide.
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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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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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Those of us who grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity.
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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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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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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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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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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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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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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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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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