I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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