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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.

Bonnie Raitt

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
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
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 like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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Get Better Heart Thinking
I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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Believe Jobs Responsibility
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
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Brother Fall Knew Nice Off Year
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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Able Getting Play Records Time
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 made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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Albums Firsts Flukes
I 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.
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Long Order Party
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
The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Deeper Emotion Experience Make
When 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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Brown Feel Resonates Song True
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Kids Real Struggle
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
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up.
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Artist Gratitude Loss Point Reach

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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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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