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It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.

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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I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.
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There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
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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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Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.
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With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.
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I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide. And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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