You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLINThey 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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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