They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINAfter they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I 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 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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You are what you settle for.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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