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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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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 one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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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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Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.
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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 generation I grew up in was the beginning of stand up for yourself, whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.
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There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I'm grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.
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I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.
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You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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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'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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'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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We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.
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It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.
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I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.
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One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
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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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It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
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When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.
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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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