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 All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That`s all I ever wanted. Except 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. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. 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. Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.
Music
Don`t compromise yourself. It`s all you`ve got.
Life
gotta go on doin` it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I`m here to have a party while I`m on this earth...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...man, there ain`t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
Life
Honey, to them I`m just a chick who is hung over at 11:00 in the morning. My hair isn`t combed, I`m wearin` funny lookin` clothes, plus I`m wearin` feathers. I walk in here and say I want a drink. These people don`t want to see me, baby. I mean, let`s face it, they don`t want me in here - period. So there`s three old cats sayin`, `What is this chick doin` here and why?` They`d just as soon be talkin` about the Mets game and they don`t want this chick walkin` in with bells on and a big sack of beads. There`s the snide remarks I`m not supposed to hear, but loud enough, of course, for me to hear. Everybody gets it, man. Getting` treated like a hippie, that`s what I`m talkin` about.
Society
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?` 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. 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?
Music
Music`s for grooving man, and music`s not for puttin` yourself through bad changes, y`know? I mean, you don`t have to go take anybody`s sh-, man, just to like music, y’know what I mean? You don’t. So... so if you`re getting` more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y`know, it`s just music. Music`s... music`s s`posed to be different than that.
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Music
Women to be in-a the music business give up more than you`d ever know. She`s got kids she gave up. Any woman gives up home life, an old man, probably, because you`re so crazy on planes and runnin` and you never find `em egain. You give up, you give up a home and friends, you give up children and friends, you give up an old man and friends, you give up any constant in the world except music. That`s the only thing you`ve got man, after you boil it down, the only thing you got left in the world is that music, man. And, so for a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to. A man can do it as a gig, `cause he knows he can get laid tonight.
Society
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Life
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