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Bonnie Raitt Biography

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, musician, and activist.

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We create our own happiness.

Create, Happiness

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

Citizens, Glad, Important, Issues, Part, Say

The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.

Blessing, Family, Impact, Serenity, Thinking, Ways

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

Help, Love, Musician, People, Play, Willing

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

Artist, Label, Legacy, Music, Needs

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

Band, Fifth, Members, Profit, Work

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

Activist, Determined, Different, Like, Use

There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes

Internet, Issues, See, Time, War, Writing

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.

Appreciation, Blues, Fests, Music, Real, Strong

Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

Age, Games, Ghetto, Guy, Mean, Met

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Daily, Occupy, Rising, Rising Up, Thank God, World

My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years. I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.

Build, Careers, Couple, Good, Putting, Years

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

Clear, Harder, Realizing, Stuff

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.

Life, People, Points, Relationships, Right Time, Whole Life

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

Job, Jobs, Letters, Morning, Years

Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored.

Bored, Caricatures, Coming, Fans, People

I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

Living, Record, Squash, Think, Thinking, Trying

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

Blessing, Justice, Parent, Parents, Raised, Thank

'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.

Broken, Event, Experiences, Healing, Inform, Thinking

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.

Girl, Guy, Harvard, Music, Political

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