When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINIt’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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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