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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.

Bonnie Raitt

Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
BONNIE RAITT

Less Life Mighty Waste
It’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
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Corporate Environment Jobs Together Work
There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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Ass Ballads Between Difference Kick Songs
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
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
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
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
The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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Band Member Profit
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
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
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.
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Successful Thinking Years
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
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
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
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows
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
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
I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
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 have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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Full Life Music Outside Really
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
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’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
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
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
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Kids Real Struggle

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