You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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