I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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 everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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