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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.

Bonnie Raitt

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.
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Brown Feel Resonates Song True
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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Careers Couple Years
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.
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Beautiful Glasses Guitar Instruments
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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Convince Downside Incredible Music Talent
If we are truly each other’s keepers, let’s support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.
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End Food Garden Needless Project Stamp
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
I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
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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Artist Great Mean Musical Rocks Style
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
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Music Real Thinking
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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Full Life Music Outside Really
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
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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Consciousness Recovery Resurgence Self Thinking
I’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
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Admire Inspiration Lucky People
Those of us who grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity.
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Back Balance Dream Men Opportunity
I’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist.
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Artist Jobs Musicologist Writing
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More

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