On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLINOh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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