I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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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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