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.
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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This 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
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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’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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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