I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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 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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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