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"When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?"
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth."
Truth
"Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't."
Feelings
"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
Time
"This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish."
Time
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
Music
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
Mother
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
Music
"When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems."
Time
"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
People
"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
Now
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