When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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