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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.

Bonnie Raitt

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
The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Deeper Emotion Experience Make
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
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows
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
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
Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight.
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Afternoon Generations Morning Record Stars
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
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
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
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
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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Full Life Music Outside Really
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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Art Class Cutting
I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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Afterlife Age Get Better
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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Faith God Spiritual

Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.

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