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 JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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