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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 JoplinJanis Joplin They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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?’
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I’m one of those regular weird people.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin
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