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?’
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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