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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 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.
BONNIE RAITT

Artist Looks Revolution Singers
In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.
BONNIE RAITT

Creating Government Years
Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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Dance Floor Guitar Movement Playing
You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Looks Records Way
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.
BONNIE RAITT

College Equal Feminist Years
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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Games Ghetto Mean
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 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
I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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Happen Life Love Make
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
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
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
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
BONNIE RAITT

Music Real Thinking
The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we’re all going, “God, what a jerk I’ve been,” “How could I have married that guy?” or “How could I have done this or that?” With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, “It wasn’t all about them.”
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Age Best Guy Look Looks Married
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
Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
BONNIE RAITT

Less Life Mighty Waste

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