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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
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Burbank
California
Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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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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Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.
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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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I'm happy to have been a positive influence.
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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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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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A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
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You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I'm grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.
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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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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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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.
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The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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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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Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
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We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.
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The generation I grew up in was the beginning of stand up for yourself, whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.
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