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BONNIE RAITTLife gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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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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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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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.
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I can’t make you love me, if you don’t.
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I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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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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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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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
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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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I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
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The one thing I know is that if you’re not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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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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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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