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Rock on out.

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

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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

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When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. 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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Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

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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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As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 19th, 1943

Died: October 4th, 1970

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