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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.

Bonnie Raitt

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
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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Get Better Heart Thinking
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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Full Life Music Outside Really
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
The women’s movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there’s been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.
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Consciousness Recovery Resurgence Self Thinking
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
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
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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Life Momogamous People Right Time Whole
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
People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that’s partly my job this time around.
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Around Partly People Thank Time Write
With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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Artist Legacy Needs
I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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City Confined One Period Think Time
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
Sometimes I’m more true when I’m up onstage than I’m able to be in my regular life. It’s not as exciting to be at home, but I’ve got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
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Able Home Learn Ordinary Regular
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
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
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 don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Advertising Agencies Thinking
The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Deeper Emotion Experience Make
I’m happy to have been a positive influence.
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Influence Positive Influence
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’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist.
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Artist Jobs Musicologist Writing
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 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
If we are truly each other’s keepers, let’s support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.
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End Food Garden Needless Project Stamp
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
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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Games Ghetto Mean

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