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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.

Janis Joplin

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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Feel Feeling Much Soul Think
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audience Eye Look Need Talk
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Meaning Over Redding Rhythmically Singing Song
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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?’
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Asked Backstage Man Marry Old Opera Real Some Story Thinking Took
You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Home People Play Seeing Stay Tired Town
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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Being Weird Kind One People Regular
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 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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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