My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINI 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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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