I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINThis 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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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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