Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLINI 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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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You are what you settle for.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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