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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.

Bonnie Raitt

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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Able Getting Play Records Time
I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
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Circumstances Prayer Real Simple
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
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’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
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Explanation Eye Feels
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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Balance Being True Knows
I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
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
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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Birth Roles Thinking
Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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Citizen Important Issues
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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Ballads Bob Dylan
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
Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I’m hearing is an appreciation of real music.
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Appreciation Real Strong
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
With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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Artist Legacy Needs
There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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People Stories Told

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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