Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINI 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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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