You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLINWhat 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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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