When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINI had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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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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That 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.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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