Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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