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Bonnie Raitt

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.
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Boards Culture Entertainment World Worldwide
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
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
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 don’t want to discredit people’s opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that’s much more difficult.
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Guitar People Want
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’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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Life Momogamous People Right Time Whole
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
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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Everything Music Rocks Roll
I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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Happen Life Love Make
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
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
The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we’re all going, “God, what a jerk I’ve been,” “How could I have married that guy?” or “How could I have done this or that?” With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, “It wasn’t all about them.”
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Age Best Guy Look Looks Married
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
Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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Childhood Guitar School
Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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Dance Floor Guitar Movement Playing
I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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Believe Jobs Responsibility
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
The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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Attention Bites Knows
You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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Looks Records Way
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
The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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Band Member Profit
It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.
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Influence People Surprise
You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
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Accountability People Sobriety
I’m one of those people who just doesn’t plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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People Plans Professional Life
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Kids Real Struggle
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

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