When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINYou know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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