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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.
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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When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment.
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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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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 never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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