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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.

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 blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Looks Records Way
I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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Back Coming Goal Really
I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide.
BONNIE RAITT

Boards Culture Entertainment World Worldwide
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.
BONNIE RAITT

Brown Feel Resonates Song True
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 experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Deeper Emotion Experience Make
I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you’re going to be is sloppy or dead.
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Long Order Party
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that’s a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
BONNIE RAITT

Artist Blessing Responsibility
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.
BONNIE RAITT

Games Ghetto Mean
I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
With slide guitar, you’re just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It’s a really beautiful instrument in that it’s so responsive, you’re just slipping your hand back and forth.
BONNIE RAITT

Beautiful Glasses Guitar Instruments
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 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
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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Get Better Heart Thinking

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