I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINThis whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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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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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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