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
JANIS JOPLINAll 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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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It 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 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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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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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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