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You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

Bonnie Raitt

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
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
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
I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
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Feels Heart Love Something
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
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
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
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of “stand up for yourself,” whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn’t have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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College Equal Feminist Years
I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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Happen Life Love Make
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
Those of us who grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity.
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Back Balance Dream Men Opportunity
I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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Afterlife Age Get Better
I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that.
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Book Everyone Relationship Self Sound
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
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
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Celebrated Encourage Made Resources Style
There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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Ass Ballads Between Difference Kick Songs

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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