Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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