Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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