I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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You are what you settle for.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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