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One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.

Bonnie Raitt

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
BONNIE RAITT

Full Life Music Outside Really
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
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Calling Political Religious
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Kids Real Struggle
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
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
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
Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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Less Life Mighty Waste
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
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Celebrated Encourage Made Resources Style
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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Music Real Thinking
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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Creating Government Years
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows
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
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
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
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

One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.

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