That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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