You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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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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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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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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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.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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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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