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I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you're going to be is sloppy or dead.
Bonnie Raitt
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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Singer-Songwriter
Burbank
California
Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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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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