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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Left Man Nothing People Person
Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Better Compromise Got Happen Honesty
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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After 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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippie Jack Off Tired
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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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.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Being Weird Kind One People Regular
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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Breakdown Distance Emotion Feeling Kill Relationship Sacrifice
You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Existed Feel Good Mouth Open Something
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Feel Really Sort Think Thinking Trying
I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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