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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.

Bonnie Raitt

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
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Contemporary Guitar Need Rocks Song
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 can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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Happen Life Love Make
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Kids Real Struggle
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
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’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
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

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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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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