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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: American Back Ban Bomb Childhood Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Give Ideas Justice Known More Movement Native Native American Need Peace People Quakers Rights Rights Movement Share Struggle Than Then Things Those Very Wanting Were Who Working You

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I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Absence Age Better Fonder Get Grow Heart Like Makes Maybe Think

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When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Because Came Else Find Just Love Love You Match More Nick Nobody Nobody Else Other Say Saying Song Songs Surprised Time Try Up Wanted Why Would Wrote You I Came

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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Active Activism Been Believe Bob Bob Dylan Came Combining Dylan Era Joan Job Least Lifetime Mary Music Our Paul Peter Regardless Responsibilities Things Think Tremendous Up I Think

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I do feel my loved ones that have passed on; I feel them looking over my shoulder... So yeah, that's pretty profound, when you're not expecting it, you didn't particularly believe in it and then it just sort of happens too often to ignore.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Believe Expecting Feel Happens Ignore Just Looking Loved Loved Ones Often Over Particularly Passed Pretty Profound Shoulder Sort Them Then Too Yeah You I Feel

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There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Create Depth Like Living Long Long Time Music Nothing Time Your

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Age Combined Fans Follow Long Long Time Me Musicians Old Old Age Our Real Stay Think Time Together Will I Think

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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.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Cambridge Four Girl Going Great Great Music Guys Harvard Late Many Mind Music Playing Political Ratio Scenes Things Those Were

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I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Blues Certain Ever Friends Gift Greatest How Incredible Kids Learn Lived Lives Marriages Me Only People Played Ran Sang Some Talked

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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: Blues Business Celebrated Consolidation Deserve Difficult Encourage Like Made Most Music Music Business National Our Part Resources Styles Treasured Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: November 8th, 1949

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