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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.

Bonnie Raitt

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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Girl Great Guy Music Political Scene
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.
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Guitar People Want
I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
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Circumstances Prayer Real Simple
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’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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Influence Positive Influence
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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Age Classical Jazz More
I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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Happen Life Love Make
I’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
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Explanation Eye Feels
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
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
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
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
My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.
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Childhood Hobbies More Nothing Parent
Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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Citizen Important Issues
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
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.
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Corny Done Political

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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