It’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
BONNIE RAITTThere are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
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My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.
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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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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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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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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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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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I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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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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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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Even if the writers don’t get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately – but there’s never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the ’60s – we could do thes
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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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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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