To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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