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Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.
Bonnie Raitt
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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
Composer
Film Actor
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Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Burbank
California
Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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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 never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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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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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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The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, God, what a jerk I've been, How could I have married that guy? or How could I have done this or that? With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, It wasn't all about them.
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AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.
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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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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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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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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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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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You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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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 didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
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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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Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.
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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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