I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
JANIS JOPLINIt used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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What 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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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