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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.

Bonnie Raitt

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

Less Life Mighty Waste
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
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.
BONNIE RAITT

Brother Fall Knew Nice Off Year
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
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
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’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
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 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 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
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 think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that’s a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
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Artist Blessing Responsibility
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
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
When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel – it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it’s James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
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Brown Feel Resonates Song True
Even if the writers don’t get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately – but there’s never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the ’60s – we could do thes
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Against Information Love Unfortunately

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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