When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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