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

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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly,...

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly,...

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex....

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex....

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I...

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I...

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to...

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to...

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Rock on out.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

You got to get it while you can.

You got to get it while you can.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

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

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

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

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

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

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because...

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because...

Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if...

Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if...

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world...

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world...

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices...

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices...

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain...

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain...