I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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