You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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