I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINIf 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 you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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You got to get it while you can.
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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.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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