I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLINThat story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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?’
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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