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…
JANIS JOPLINTexas 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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