Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINI’m one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINI 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 JOPLINLike, 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?
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLINIt’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.
JANIS JOPLINYou got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINI don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLINAt least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
JANIS JOPLINOh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINAll any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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