It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINIt used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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