Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINBeing 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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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