I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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 love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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