Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINThis 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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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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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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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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You got to get it while you can.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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