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.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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