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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.

Bonnie Raitt

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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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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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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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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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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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I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.
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