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I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Bonnie Raitt

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
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
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
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
I don’t know that I’m unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I’m honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.
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Honest People Unique
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
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
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders’ contribution … the tone is everything
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Everything Music Rocks Roll
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
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
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
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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Kids Real Struggle
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
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
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
We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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Adages Amoeba Knows

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