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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

It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle – it shows people that it’s big business against the people.
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Energy Radical Real Republican Struggle
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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Creating Government Years
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
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
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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Duckling Lakes Swans Ugly
I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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Albums Firsts Flukes
I’m proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story – it’s casting, editing, cinematography.
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Editing Stories Together
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 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.
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Artist Looks Revolution Singers
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
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Brother Fall Knew Nice Off Year
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’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
Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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Less Life Mighty Waste
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
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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Childhood Hobbies More Nothing Parent
I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that.
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Book Everyone Relationship Self Sound
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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Rising Up Thank God World
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows
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.
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Artist Blessing Responsibility
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.
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Corny Done Political
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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Education Position Women World
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
I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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Afterlife Age Get Better
There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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Ass Ballads Between Difference Kick Songs
Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage.
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Age Amount Courage Long People Together
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
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.
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Games Ghetto Mean

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