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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.

Bonnie Raitt

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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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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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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 just want to be as good a person as I can be.
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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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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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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 hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.
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There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
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I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.
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I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
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