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I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Burbank
California
Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.
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The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.
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I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
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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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One of the things that I'm glad about, though, is that regular people can relate to me.
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I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Life is simple yet complex, in the complexity we realize everything is simple for we create our own happiness, our own sadness & our own destiny by not making a choice you have chosen so face life with courage and faith in yourself.
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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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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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When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
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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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Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.
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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. And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.
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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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