Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINI 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?’
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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You are what you settle for.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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