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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.

Bonnie Raitt

The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
BONNIE RAITT

Deeper Emotion Experience Make
Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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Less Life Mighty Waste
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
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
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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Full Life Music Outside Really
I don’t know that I’m unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I’m honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.
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Honest People Unique
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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Art Class Cutting
I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that.
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Book Everyone Relationship Self Sound
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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Girl Great Guy Music Political Scene
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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Boards Culture Entertainment World Worldwide
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows
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
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
And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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Education Position Women World
I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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Influence Positive Influence
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

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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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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