I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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 older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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