The more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLINI talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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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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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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