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.
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 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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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