I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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