When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINExcept 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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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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