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Bonnie Raitt has 90 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are…
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Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste
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Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to…
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
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There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine
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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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Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are…
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I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are…
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We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother…
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We can live in fear or act out of hope.
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Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see…
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
— William Wordsworth
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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
— William Shakespeare
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Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the…
— David Massengill
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I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of…
— David Massengill
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear…
— Michael Jackson
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I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to…
— Chris Brown
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey,…
— LaToya London
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Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with…
— Phyllis Hyman
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is…
— Al Jarreau
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
— Chrissie Hynde
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But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
— John Fogerty
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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen…
— William Shakespeare
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