You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLINFreedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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