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.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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 not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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