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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

Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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Less Life Mighty Waste
With slide guitar, you’re just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It’s a really beautiful instrument in that it’s so responsive, you’re just slipping your hand back and forth.
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Beautiful Glasses Guitar Instruments
I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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Back Coming Goal Really
Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight.
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Afternoon Generations Morning Record Stars
I’m honored when young people say they’ve gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally.
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Guitar People Personally School
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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Rising Up Thank God World
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
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 finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
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House Play White
My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years.
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Careers Couple Years
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of “stand up for yourself,” whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn’t have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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College Equal Feminist Years
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
You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
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Accountability People Sobriety
It’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
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Corporate Environment Jobs Together Work
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

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.

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