You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLINAnd I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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