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.
JANIS JOPLINI started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You are what you settle for.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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