Joan Osborne
Joan Osborne
Joan Elizabeth Osborneis an American singer, songwriter, and interpreter of music, having recorded and performed in various popular American musical genres including pop, soul, R&B, blues and country. She is best known for her recording of the Eric Bazilian song "One of Us". She has toured with Motown sidemen the Funk Brothers and was featured in the documentary film about them, Standing in the Shadows of Motown...
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It's funny. If I had plotted a course for my career, I would have done something more akin to what Alison Krauss does, ... She stays within the same field of bluegrass, and getting deeper and deeper into that well. And you create this expectation on the part of the audience.
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It was like Grateful Dead bootcamp, jumping in like that,
realizing painful unfair
If you're stuck in a situation that's painful or there's something that makes you angry, it can enable you to step back from your own experience of it and realize that this is just a part of what it is to be human. It can allow you to accept it a little bit more and make you feel like it's less unfair.
obvious
If something's real successful, that's the obvious thing, to try it again,
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I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could make a living being a blues musician. There were a lot of clubs where you could play this type of music every night. And a lot of roots rock clubs, and bands like the Holmes Brothers, Chris Whitley and Blues Traveler playing opposite sides of the street corner. And a lot of camaraderie. Nobody was thinking of record deals, so there wasn't any feeling of competition.
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But the experience was so great. That's what the music is about, the band and the audience elevating each other. I worried that it would be people sitting back and judging me. But it wasn't like that at all.
vulnerable
Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.
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One guy stood outside telling us the hot dogs were no good and to give him all our lunch tickets. The hot dogs were excellent. He just wanted a few more.
pain trying
I try to use pain as fuel for my work.
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With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.
friendship long drug
We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.
sex singing nipples
Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on stage, I do!
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It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
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You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.