Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLINWhy should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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 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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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