The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
BONNIE RAITTThere are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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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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I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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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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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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I don’t know if I’m a heroine; I’m just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.
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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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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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The women’s movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there’s been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.
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I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I’m in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
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Ugly ducklings don’t turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
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I’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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