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Bonnie Raitt

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’m glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn’t that difficult to do. I didn’t take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.
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Guitar Human Lessons Voice
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
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
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 can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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Happen Life Love Make
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
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
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
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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Energy Lasts Sun
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 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 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
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 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
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
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty.
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Country Garden School
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
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows
The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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Band Member Profit
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
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.
BONNIE RAITT

Guitar People Want
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.
BONNIE RAITT

Artist Jobs Musicologist Writing
With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
BONNIE RAITT

Artist Legacy Needs
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
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

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