You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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..
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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