As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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