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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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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Burbank
California
Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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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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I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.
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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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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 one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.
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I'm happy to have been a positive influence.
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Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, sound barks, not even sound bite
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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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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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Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.
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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 can't make you love me, if you don't.
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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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You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.
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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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