Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINBeing 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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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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 someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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