Music

(369 votes)   We enjoy playing with each other, which I think is a pretty important part of this. If we didn't, we'd have given it up a long time ago. The idea when we started was to take five people and keep 'em together no matter what and see what we could get out of it, and we've pretty much stuck to that plan.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(368 votes)   Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(365 votes)   I'm one of those regular weird people.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(359 votes)   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.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(358 votes)   Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(353 votes)   I 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.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(352 votes)   If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(348 votes)   I hope you're going to edit this stuff. I don't want to sound like a senile, self-pitying chick babbling on and on about her days of glory.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(348 votes)   You got to get it while you can.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(344 votes)   It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(342 votes)   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.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(341 votes)   Don't compromise yourself. It's all you've got.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(337 votes)   You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(324 votes)   ...those that have prescribed the solution through the good feeling of the music itself, like the Beatles and Bob Marley and Bob Dylan.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(324 votes)   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.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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