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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.

Janis Joplin

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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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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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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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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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