You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
BONNIE RAITTWhen you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel – it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it’s James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
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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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In my early twenties, if I wasn’t getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long – I hope we get better with age.
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Sometimes I’m more true when I’m up onstage than I’m able to be in my regular life. It’s not as exciting to be at home, but I’ve got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
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I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
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I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get started.
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I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
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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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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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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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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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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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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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I’m glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn’t that difficult to do. I didn’t take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.
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There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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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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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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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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