I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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 don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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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 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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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