On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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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