On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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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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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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This 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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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